Messages in this thread | | | From | Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <> | Subject | Re: removing existing working drivers via staging | Date | Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:42:40 +0200 |
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On Thursday 15 October 2009 18:47:26 Greg KH wrote: > On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 09:39:51AM -0700, david@lang.hm wrote: > > however, what I think I saw proposed was to move drivers that need to be > > 'cleaned up', to staging and then dropping them if they don't get cleaned. > > What is "proposed" is the following: > > - For drivers currently in the kernel tree, that the subsystem > maintainer, for whatever reason, feels is obsolete / broken / > needs major cleaning / wants to get rid of, can be submitted > to the staging maintainer to be moved to the drivers/staging/ > directory.
This is insanity and opens a door for various forms of abuse.
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