From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ben@decadent.org.uk (Ben Hutchings) Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2010 02:02:23 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] econet: Move to staging; remove from defconfig In-Reply-To: <20101128013923.GA9285@suse.de> References: <1290897868.3292.59.camel@localhost> <20101128002135.GA4562@suse.de> <20101127.172644.226781076.davem@davemloft.net> <20101128013923.GA9285@suse.de> Message-ID: <1290909743.3292.248.camel@localhost> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Sat, 2010-11-27 at 17:39 -0800, Greg KH wrote: > On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 05:26:44PM -0800, David Miller wrote: > > From: Greg KH > > Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 16:21:35 -0800 > > > > > And I need an ack from the networking maintainer to be able to accept > > > this also. > > > > I'm not applying this, nor do I want anyone else to. > > > > If people think this protocol is not maintained adequately > > right now, wait until you push it into staging. > > > > Furthermore, once Phil Blundell was made aware of security > > holes in econet he fixed them within a few days. Which is > > much better than I can say for some of the other protocols > > and filesystems in the tree. > > > > Moving this into staging, is therefore not appropriate. > > Agreed. > > Ben, why are you trying to remove these protocols that people use and > maintain? This is the third one that has been shot down recently... Moving to staging is a step toward removal, but not removal itself. I already stated the reasons I picked those three protocols; I'm not going to push the issue if David disagrees. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 828 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: