public inbox for linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
To: Komuro <komurojun-mbn@nifty.com>
Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>,
	Pep Talens <pep.talens@f1-connecting.com>,
	linux-pcmcia@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-mtd <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>,
	'David Woodhouse' <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
	Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: pcmciamtd -- what's broken, who needs it?
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2009 12:33:46 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091107113346.GA9922@isilmar.linta.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <31862236.11111257593349372.komurojun-mbn@nifty.com>

Hey,

On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 08:29:09PM +0900, Komuro wrote:
> staging directory is not the place for broken driver,
> is it?


It is becoming the place for drivers on their way out of the kernel tree.
An indication for drivers being unused is that they have been marked broken
or obsolete for a loooong time; and then they'll remain in staging for 3
releases or so before being removed (or being moved in again).

Best,
	Dominik

  reply	other threads:[~2009-11-07 11:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20091024194219.GA19546@comet.dominikbrodowski.net>
2009-10-24 19:43 ` [PATCH 14/16] pcmcia: use dynamic debug infrastructure, deprecate CS_CHECK (misc drivers) Dominik Brodowski
2009-10-26  6:42   ` Artem Bityutskiy
2009-10-26  7:13     ` Dominik Brodowski
2009-10-26  7:26       ` Artem Bityutskiy
2009-10-26  7:56         ` Dominik Brodowski
2009-10-26  8:05           ` Artem Bityutskiy
2009-10-26 10:19         ` Alan Cox
2009-10-26 10:18           ` Artem Bityutskiy
2009-11-03  8:37             ` Artem Bityutskiy
2009-11-07 11:19               ` pcmciamtd -- what's broken, who needs it? Dominik Brodowski
2009-11-07 11:29                 ` Komuro
2009-11-07 11:33                   ` Dominik Brodowski [this message]
2009-11-07 16:57                     ` Kristoffer Ericson
2009-11-08  8:12                       ` Dominik Brodowski
2009-11-07 22:33                 ` Komuro
2009-11-04 10:20             ` PETEC 2MB SRAM Pep Talens

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20091107113346.GA9922@isilmar.linta.de \
    --to=linux@dominikbrodowski.net \
    --cc=alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk \
    --cc=dedekind1@gmail.com \
    --cc=dwmw2@infradead.org \
    --cc=komurojun-mbn@nifty.com \
    --cc=linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org \
    --cc=linux-pcmcia@lists.infradead.org \
    --cc=pep.talens@f1-connecting.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox