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    SubjectRe: Moving drivers into staging (was Re: [GIT PULL] SCSI fixes for 2.6.32-rc3)
    Ingo Molnar wrote:
    > * Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:
    >
    >> On Tue, 2009-10-13 at 21:45 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
    >> > How about when it was scheduled to be removed, we put it in staging and
    >> > I'll add it to my announcements about the staging tree every release?
    >> > Unless you can think of a better way?
    >>
    >> staging/to_be_removed_unless_fixed_by/v.x.y ?
    >
    > Yes, that's a real worry. Some time ago i suggested:
    >
    > drivers/staging/good/
    > drivers/staging/bad/
    > drivers/staging/ugly/

    How well do "git am", "quilt import" and friends cope with ever changing
    directories?

    How about using drivers/staging/this_driver/TODO and (or) its Kconfig
    help text to leave a note about the plans for this driver?

    The worry that these will be ignored like
    Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt is being ignored may apply to
    the path name based solution too, I'm afraid.

    (Besides, Greg's release announcements are a good channel for this.
    These announcements are actually picked up by the specialized press.)
    --
    Stefan Richter
    -=====-==--= =-=- -===-
    http://arcgraph.de/sr/


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