From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, gregkh@suse.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] strip: move driver to staging
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:10:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091023161006.GA1580@ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1256015830-12700-1-git-send-email-linville@tuxdriver.com>
On Tue 2009-10-20 14:17:07, John W. Linville wrote:
> Move the strip ("Starmode Radio IP") driver to drivers/staging. For
> several years this driver has only seen API "bombing-run" changes, and
> few people ever had the hardware. This driver represents unnecessary
> ongoing maintenance for no clear benefit.
This seems like abuse of the staging process.
There's no TODO to say what needs to be fixed. You just don't want to
maintain it. Because there's nothing to fix, noone has reason to patch
it, and the (working, good enough) driver will just be removed.
It also marks driver as broken when it is not...
What about removing it in the regular way, that's
Documentation/feature-removal.txt ?
Pavel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-23 16:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-20 5:17 [PATCH 1/4] strip: move driver to staging John W. Linville
2009-10-20 5:17 ` [PATCH 2/4] arlan: " John W. Linville
[not found] ` <1256015830-12700-3-git-send-email-linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-20 5:17 ` [PATCH 4/4] netwave: " John W. Linville
2009-10-27 20:36 ` Staging: " Greg KH
2009-10-27 21:05 ` John W. Linville
2009-10-27 22:12 ` Greg KH
2009-10-20 16:06 ` [PATCH 1/4] strip: " Randy Dunlap
2009-10-26 16:46 ` John W. Linville
2009-10-26 17:02 ` Randy Dunlap
2009-10-26 18:48 ` Greg KH
2009-10-23 16:10 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2009-10-23 16:54 ` Alan Cox
2009-10-26 16:55 ` John W. Linville
2009-10-26 17:18 ` david
2009-10-26 17:43 ` John W. Linville
2009-10-26 18:47 ` Greg KH
2009-10-27 4:17 ` david
2009-10-27 5:21 ` David Miller
2009-10-27 8:34 ` Stefan Richter
2009-10-27 14:08 ` Greg KH
2009-10-27 18:39 ` david
2009-10-27 20:38 ` Greg KH
2009-10-27 21:13 ` John W. Linville
2009-10-27 21:32 ` Alan Cox
2009-10-26 17:24 ` Pavel Machek
2009-10-26 17:29 ` Alan Cox
2009-10-26 17:34 ` John W. Linville
2009-10-26 18:48 ` Greg KH
2009-10-26 19:07 ` Joe Perches
2009-10-26 19:17 ` Greg KH
2009-10-26 19:20 ` John W. Linville
2009-10-26 19:36 ` Greg KH
2009-10-26 20:06 ` Joe Perches
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