Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762980AbZJOTlm (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:41:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756137AbZJOTll (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:41:41 -0400 Received: from einhorn.in-berlin.de ([192.109.42.8]:35693 "EHLO einhorn.in-berlin.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752600AbZJOTlk (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:41:40 -0400 X-Envelope-From: stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de Message-ID: <4AD77AC3.7040905@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:40:51 +0200 From: Stefan Richter User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8.1.22) Gecko/20090926 SeaMonkey/1.1.17 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: david@lang.hm CC: Greg KH , Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , Stefan Richter , linux-kernel , Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: removing existing working drivers via staging References: <200910151942.40259.bzolnier@gmail.com> <20091015174932.GA3595@suse.de> <200910152020.13080.bzolnier@gmail.com> <20091015184656.GA29858@suse.de> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 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: 948 Lines: 21 david@lang.hm wrote: > a driver in staging will be able to build, but a driver that was removed > after 6-9 months that a user discovered the removal of a year later when > they upgraded to a new distro release (say a normal ubuntu release after > staying on the old one for the 18 month support period) is likely to > need significant work to catch up with kernel changes in the meanwhile. I don't think this new mechanism is meant to be, or can ever be, a way to remove things that work and that users need. Hence the timeline of 3 releases per <20091015164726.GA10125@suse.de> affects developers/ janitors much more than end users. -- Stefan Richter -=====-==--= =-=- -==== http://arcgraph.de/sr/ -- 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/