Re: Is it time to move drivers/staging/netlogic/ out of staging?

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Fri, Feb 03, 2017 at 12:38:45PM -0800, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> On 02/03/2017 12:36 PM, Greg KH wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> I do have one, and other colleagues have some too, but I am not heavily
> using it, nor do I have many cycles to spend on that... sounds like we
> could keep it in staging for another 6 months and see what happens then?

Well, if it works for you, want to maintain it?  :)