Subject: Re: rtl2860 driver in mainline?
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@gmail.com>
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On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 01:02 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:

> > I don't think it makes sense either, at _best_ it'll do nothing but hel=
p
> > a few users [1], and if somebody actually starts working on the vendor
> > driver because it's in staging that's actively harmful to the real
> > driver by diverting resources away from it.
> >
> > johannes
> >
> > [1] I used to think the point wasn't to make users happy but to make it
> > easier to work on those drivers, but that objective seems long gone
>=20
> Problem is distributions already ship crap anyway.

Well, yes, but that's fine, it doesn't mean people will work on the
crap, it means people will use the crap. As far as I understood, putting
it into staging was supposed to mean "here is some crap for people to
work on", which is a huge difference.

johannes

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