Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753944AbZJZRH1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:07:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753792AbZJZRH0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:07:26 -0400 Received: from rcsinet11.oracle.com ([148.87.113.123]:57611 "EHLO rgminet11.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753108AbZJZRHZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:07:25 -0400 Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:02:35 -0700 From: Randy Dunlap To: "John W. Linville" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, gregkh@suse.de Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] strip: move driver to staging Message-Id: <20091026100235.b6bf2df6.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> In-Reply-To: <20091026164645.GD2792@tuxdriver.com> References: <1256015830-12700-1-git-send-email-linville@tuxdriver.com> <20091020090627.f36130fb.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> <20091026164645.GD2792@tuxdriver.com> Organization: Oracle Linux Eng. X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.7.1 (GTK+ 2.12.0; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Source-IP: acsmt354.oracle.com [141.146.40.154] X-Auth-Type: Internal IP X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A090208.4AE5D740.0115:SCFMA4539814,ss=1,fgs=0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1398 Lines: 37 On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:46:45 -0400 John W. Linville wrote: > On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 09:06:27AM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: > > On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:17:07 +0900 John W. Linville wrote: > > > > > Move the strip ("Starmode Radio IP") driver to drivers/staging. For > > > several years this driver has only seen API "bombing-run" changes, and > > > few people ever had the hardware. This driver represents unnecessary > > > ongoing maintenance for no clear benefit. > > > > > > This patch brought to you by the "hacking" session at the 2009 Kernel > > > Summit in Tokyo, Japan... > > > > is drivers/staging/ a temporary home or a permanent home? > > I would presume it to be "permanent until removed"... > > > so no explanation of what it means to be in drivers/staging/ and > > no warning to users? either in Kconfig or in feature-removal-schedule.txt? > > Moving it to staging _is_ the warning. Nah. Maybe it is for developers, but not for users (IMO of course). > As for the removal schedule, > I imagined that Greg would "do the needful" before actually removing > the driver. He usually wants patches, but that's up to him. --- ~Randy -- 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/