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From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] strip: move driver to staging
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:20:26 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091026192026.GI2792@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1256584063.1865.118.camel@Joe-Laptop.home>

On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 12:07:43PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-10-26 at 11:48 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 06:24:34PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > > Anyway, for moving to staging, TODO file describing what needs to be
> > > fixed before it is brought back was listed as a requirement.
> > 	- A maintainer is needed to take ownership of this driver and
> > 	  they must be willing to maintain and test any future api
> > 	  changes needed.
> 
> There are a lot of files in the tree without assigned maintainers.
> (want a list? ;)
> 
> I think adding a requirement that files have maintainers before
> being added to not-staging is not a good thing.

This is not a blanket policy.  Please don't imply that it is.

> It is likely that strip could have be deleted without anyone caring.

Perhaps so...how would that be better?  It would be less work for Greg,
but he seems to be fine with this...

John
-- 
John W. Linville		Someday the world will need a hero, and you
linville@tuxdriver.com			might be all we have.  Be ready.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-10-26 19:31 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
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 [this message]
2009-10-26 19:36             ` Greg KH
2009-10-26 20:06             ` Joe Perches

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