From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, gregkh@suse.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] strip: move driver to staging
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:34:04 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091026173404.GF2792@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091026172434.GI25725@elf.ucw.cz>
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 06:24:34PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> On Mon 2009-10-26 12:55:19, John W. Linville wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 06:10:06PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > > 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.
> >
> > "ongoing maintenance for no clear benefit" -- that is what is wrong
> > with it.
>
> And how is moving to staging helping with that?
Because no one is required to protect staging drivers from API-change
breakage.
John
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-26 17:46 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
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 [this message]
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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