Re: removing existing working drivers via staging

Greg KH
2009-10-15T17:52:55Z

On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 07:42:40PM +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> On Thursday 15 October 2009 18:47:26 Greg KH wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 09:39:51AM -0700, david@lang.hm wrote:
> > > however, what I think I saw proposed was to move drivers that need to be
> > > 'cleaned up', to staging and then dropping them if they don't get cleaned.
> >
> > What is "proposed" is the following:
> >
> > - For drivers currently in the kernel tree, that the subsystem
> > maintainer, for whatever reason, feels is obsolete / broken /
> > needs major cleaning / wants to get rid of, can be submitted
> > to the staging maintainer to be moved to the drivers/staging/
> > directory.
>
> This is insanity and opens a door for various forms of abuse.

What do you mean by this? What kind of "abuse"?