From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-11.0 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIMWL_WL_HIGH, DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, INCLUDES_CR_TRAILER,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9358C433DB for ; Mon, 29 Mar 2021 06:42:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B35FA61477 for ; Mon, 29 Mar 2021 06:42:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S230100AbhC2Gl4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Mar 2021 02:41:56 -0400 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:58092 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S229706AbhC2Glj (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Mar 2021 02:41:39 -0400 Received: by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3D28D61968; Mon, 29 Mar 2021 06:41:39 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1617000099; bh=KxNcYSl0nrCa2SH/GVXM8tEadgh7cMT6fd+SoIzsIC0=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=v2MDT53Dp/isiKR41HWoKzD+0lO44jjFh5Dcf8jL/c897WSmq5RclJLFyOvRdaCKn KfsvlYEndo+RMItumzrV2D4DjDIzqOqkFO+KRJcbxuFo3+Kmm2+jkY8M647kWXddYN JYw1sHE5zw0hVYsGdBPQlIiD+AlbZYdpSmPSG/pg= Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2021 08:41:31 +0200 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: Leon Romanovsky Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Matthew Wilcox , Du Cheng Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] qrtr: move to staging Message-ID: References: <20210328122621.2614283-1-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 09:30:25AM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote: > On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 07:30:08AM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 08:17:06AM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote: > > > On Sun, Mar 28, 2021 at 02:26:21PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > > > There does not seem to be any developers willing to maintain the > > > > net/qrtr/ code, so move it to drivers/staging/ so that it can be removed > > > > from the kernel tree entirely in a few kernel releases if no one steps > > > > up to maintain it. > > > > > > > > Reported-by: Matthew Wilcox > > > > Cc: Du Cheng > > > > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman > > > > --- > > > > > > Greg, > > > > > > Why don't you simply delete it like other code that is not maintained? > > > > "normally" we have been giving code a chance by having it live in > > drivers/staging/ for a bit before removing it to allow anyone that > > actually cares about the codebase to notice it before removing it. > > I don't know about netdev view on this, but for the RDMA code, the code > in staging means _not_exist_. We took this decision after/during Lustre > fiasco. That's fine, each subsystem can set it's own rules for staging code. For networking stuff, the flow-out-through-staging has been happening for some time now. Lustre was a different beast, that was an attempt to get code into the kernel, not out. thanks, greg k-h