Re: Moving unmaintained filesystems to staging

Ondrej Zary
2018-04-29T20:07:26Z

On Sunday 29 April 2018 14:07:05 Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 08:11:08AM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > On Wed 2018-04-25 08:46:02, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > > Recently ncpfs got moved to staging. Also recently, we had some fuzzer
> > > developers report bugs in hfs, which they deem a security hole because
> > > Ubuntu attempts to automount an inserted USB device as hfs.
> >
> > We promise "no-regressions" for code in main repository, no such
> > promise for staging. We have quite a lot of code without maintainer.
> >
> > Moving code to staging means it will get broken -- staging was not
> > designed for this. I believe moving anything there is bad idea.
> >
> > Staging is for ugly code, not for code that needs new maintainter.
>
> Staging is used for getting code _out_ of the kernel tree as well as
> _in_. We use it all the time to move code there, see if anyone shows up
> in 6-8 months to say "I will fix this!", and if not, we delete it.
>
> Look at what just happened to IRDA in the 4.17-rc1 release as an example
> of this.

Really a "great" example of deleting working code :(

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Ondrej Zary