From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, gregkh@suse.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] strip: move driver to staging
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:46:45 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091026164645.GD2792@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091020090627.f36130fb.randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 09:06:27AM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:17:07 +0900 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 patch brought to you by the "hacking" session at the 2009 Kernel
> > Summit in Tokyo, Japan...
>
> is drivers/staging/ a temporary home or a permanent home?
I would presume it to be "permanent until removed"...
> so no explanation of what it means to be in drivers/staging/ and
> no warning to users? either in Kconfig or in feature-removal-schedule.txt?
Moving it to staging _is_ the warning. As for the removal schedule,
I imagined that Greg would "do the needful" before actually removing
the driver.
John
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-26 17:01 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 [this message]
2009-10-26 17:02 ` Randy Dunlap
2009-10-26 18:48 ` Greg KH
2009-10-23 16:10 ` Pavel Machek
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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