Re: removing existing working drivers via staging

Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2009-10-15T17:45:55Z

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 maintainer, for whatever reason, feels is obsolete / broken /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.