Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S935214AbZJORpz (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:45:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S935220AbZJORpy (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:45:54 -0400 Received: from mail-fx0-f227.google.com ([209.85.220.227]:61423 "EHLO mail-fx0-f227.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932202AbZJORpx (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:45:53 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:message-id:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=jx1I8ACHYqgCTMa+qtyPsd1yxfNMTTbrRg3FOIp9f73ut4eyn0B7dJE1fd82MkHLJ4 cmKjmZjsEPx9SmQ+4XkLghi44QuxS7TZXR8wcfHqJQyLa7PYLXvcI1AWq6qkOLtZENPc ddtTcZNTjLbYCnNJfgBel7EB4Sm5Zx49/XX+I= From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz To: Greg KH Subject: Re: removing existing working drivers via staging Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:42:40 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.1 (Linux/2.6.31.1-56.fc12.x86_64; KDE/4.3.1; x86_64; ; ) Cc: david@lang.hm, Stefan Richter , "linux-kernel" , Ingo Molnar References: <20091015164726.GA10125@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <20091015164726.GA10125@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <200910151942.40259.bzolnier@gmail.com> Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 909 Lines: 19 On Thursday 15 October 2009 18:47:26 Greg KH wrote: > On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 09:39:51AM -0700, david@lang.hm wrote: > > however, what I think I saw proposed was to move drivers that need to be > > 'cleaned up', to staging and then dropping them if they don't get cleaned. > > What is "proposed" is the following: > > - For drivers currently in the kernel tree, that the subsystem > maintainer, for whatever reason, feels is obsolete / broken / > needs major cleaning / wants to get rid of, can be submitted > to the staging maintainer to be moved to the drivers/staging/ > directory. This is insanity and opens a door for various forms of abuse. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/