Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754857AbZJ0FUu (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:20:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754663AbZJ0FUt (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:20:49 -0400 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:56866 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754653AbZJ0FUt (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:20:49 -0400 Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:21:12 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20091026.222112.23063030.davem@davemloft.net> To: david@lang.hm Cc: gregkh@suse.de, linville@tuxdriver.com, pavel@ucw.cz, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] strip: move driver to staging From: David Miller In-Reply-To: References: <20091026184734.GA21591@suse.de> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.2.51 on Emacs 22.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) 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: 916 Lines: 23 From: david@lang.hm Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:17:55 -0700 (PDT) > On Mon, 26 Oct 2009, Greg KH wrote: > >> Do you have this kind of hardware and are willing to accept ownership >> of >> this driver? > > no, I do not have the hardware, but if there are no bugs reported > against this driverit would seem that having a 'maintainer' who made > absolutly no changes to the driver (just allowing API changes by > others to be implemented) would be the same thing as having no > maintainer, but in the first case you are willing to have the driver > in the kernel, in the other you want to rip it out. Nobody is using this driver, and we're pretty damn confident of that. -- 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/