From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dan Carpenter Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2013 10:14:35 +0000 Subject: Re: Kernel janitors website? Message-Id: <20130215101435.GB6853@mwanda> List-Id: References: <87d2w2u5qv.fsf@steelpick.2x.cz> In-Reply-To: <87d2w2u5qv.fsf@steelpick.2x.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 10:24:09AM +0100, Julia Lawall wrote: > > Everything in staging/ is supposed to be being developed with the > > goal of getting out. The exception would the android code. > > OK, at one point, some code was put there that was on the way out, unless > someone complained, rather than on the way in. I think it was around the > time of the final elimination of the big kernel lock. But perhaps it was > an isolated incident. If all of the code in staging is actually of > interest, maybe I should pay more attention to it in the future :) Oh, yes. Telephony, serial/ and tty/ were that way. They have been deleted now. I think the only driver on its way out now is the one under net/. regards, dan carpenter