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From:   Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To:     Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
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Subject: Re: Is it time to move drivers/staging/netlogic/ out of staging?
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On Fri, Feb 03, 2017 at 10:57:16AM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Fri, 2017-02-03 at 10:50 -0800, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> > (with JC's other email)
> 
> And now with Greg's proper email too
> 
> > On 02/03/2017 10:47 AM, Joe Perches wrote:
> > > 64 bit stats isn't implemented, but is that really necessary?
> > > Anything else?
> > 
> > Joe, do you have such hardware that you are interested in getting
> > supported, or was that just to reduce the amount of drivers in staging?
> > I am really not clear about what happened to that entire product line,
> > and whether there is any interest in having anything supported these days...
> 
> No hardware.  Just to reduce staging driver count.

Without hardware or a "real" maintainer, it shouldn't be moved.

Heck, if no one has the hardware, let's just delete the thing.

thanks,

greg k-h