Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S935270AbZJOSoG (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:44:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S935248AbZJOSoE (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:44:04 -0400 Received: from earthlight.etchedpixels.co.uk ([81.2.110.250]:55850 "EHLO www.etchedpixels.co.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S935139AbZJOSoD (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:44:03 -0400 Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:44:34 +0100 From: Alan Cox To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Cc: Greg KH , david@lang.hm, Stefan Richter , "linux-kernel" , Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: removing existing working drivers via staging Message-ID: <20091015194434.5b8cef42@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <200910151942.40259.bzolnier@gmail.com> References: <20091015164726.GA10125@suse.de> <200910151942.40259.bzolnier@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.2 (GTK+ 2.14.7; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1434 Lines: 30 On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:42:40 +0200 Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > 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 maintainer, for whatever reason, feels is obsolete / broken / 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. It seems very sensible to me. It could be abused but that overlooks the fact that Greg administers staging, the kernel community sees everything and even if Greg doesn't keep things in order Linus would. There are a pile of serial drivers that I think should get this treatement (actually I was simply going to submit removal patches for rio, riscom8, esp and a couple of others until this idea occurred) -- 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/