Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:46:45 -0400 | From | "John W. Linville" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/4] strip: move driver to staging |
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On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 09:06:27AM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: > On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:17:07 +0900 John W. Linville wrote: > > > Move the strip ("Starmode Radio IP") driver to drivers/staging. For > > several years this driver has only seen API "bombing-run" changes, and > > few people ever had the hardware. This driver represents unnecessary > > ongoing maintenance for no clear benefit. > > > > This patch brought to you by the "hacking" session at the 2009 Kernel > > Summit in Tokyo, Japan... > > is drivers/staging/ a temporary home or a permanent home?
I would presume it to be "permanent until removed"...
> so no explanation of what it means to be in drivers/staging/ and > no warning to users? either in Kconfig or in feature-removal-schedule.txt?
Moving it to staging _is_ the warning. As for the removal schedule, I imagined that Greg would "do the needful" before actually removing the driver.
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