From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757776AbbCDGF7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Mar 2015 01:05:59 -0500 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:41504 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755300AbbCDGF4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Mar 2015 01:05:56 -0500 Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2015 21:49:24 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Michel Machado Cc: Daniel Borkmann , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux XIA - merge proposal Message-ID: <20150304054924.GA27610@kroah.com> References: <54F5EF6E.9090303@digirati.com.br> <54F64B75.3010109@iogearbox.net> <54F6527E.6080406@digirati.com.br> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <54F6527E.6080406@digirati.com.br> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Mar 03, 2015 at 07:31:58PM -0500, Michel Machado wrote: > Hi Daniel, > > >>We're fine with clearly marking Linux XIA as being under staging > >>as well as helping to define this review process for network stacks. > > > >With regard to staging, the code there is usually horrible and I'm > >not sure anyone really looks there, that would mitigate the review > >problem to the time when you try to get it out from there, so I'm > >not sure it brings anything. ;) > > I suggested staging as a way to incrementally review the code. Yet you failed to at least ask the maintainer of the staging portion of the kernel, if this is a valid use of staging, and his resources... Not nice :( greg k-h