From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@iki.fi>,
proski@gnu.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: at76_usb driver status
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2008 16:31:19 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081006203118.GG3448@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1223323940.31717.3.camel@dhcp-100-3-195.bos.redhat.com>
On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 04:12:20PM -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 11:35 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > I'll gladly drop it from drivers/staging when the "real" version hits
> > mainline, until then, it should stay in staging, as that is the whole
> > point of it.
>
> It does nobody any good if (a) the drivers are _never_ going to go
> upstream, and (b) if the drivers aren't going to get any attention in
> their current form because of (a).
>
> I don't care if the driver allows peoples hardware to work; I want a
> driver that makes peoples hardware work _well_. Out of tree drivers
> that are never going upstream will not work well.
I think/thought the main point of -staging was to give drivers
visibility in hopes of people working to fix them.
John
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-06 20:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-02 21:07 at76_usb driver status Greg KH
2008-10-02 16:20 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-10-05 6:32 ` Kalle Valo
2008-10-05 5:56 ` Kalle Valo
2008-10-05 6:13 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-10-05 6:22 ` Kalle Valo
2008-10-05 6:14 ` Kalle Valo
2008-10-05 6:16 ` Greg KH
2008-10-05 6:29 ` Kalle Valo
2008-10-05 15:14 ` Greg KH
2008-10-06 5:28 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-10-06 5:39 ` Kalle Valo
2008-10-06 5:42 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-10-06 6:10 ` Kalle Valo
2008-10-06 6:26 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-10-05 6:41 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-10-05 15:14 ` Greg KH
2008-10-05 16:17 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-10-05 22:57 ` Greg KH
2008-10-06 15:23 ` Dan Williams
2008-10-06 10:23 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-10-06 18:21 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-10-06 18:35 ` Greg KH
2008-10-06 20:12 ` Dan Williams
2008-10-06 20:31 ` John W. Linville [this message]
2008-10-06 20:42 ` Johannes Berg
2008-10-06 21:39 ` John W. Linville
2008-10-06 22:54 ` Greg KH
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