Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Staging, place holder for better company/community development model | From | Johannes Berg <> | Date | Mon, 09 Mar 2009 22:20:33 +0100 |
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On Mon, 2009-03-09 at 12:41 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > Staging drivers will typically be an extremely huge amount of crap that > > just floods mailing lists. I don't care about those I don't read, but I > > would prefer to not have wireless staging drivers cross the wireless > > list which makes it seem like somebody is actually interested in those > > drivers. > > I was asked by the wireless maintainer and some of the wireless > developers to send such patches to the list, so that everyone knows > exactly what is going on in the staging tree.
This is a misrepresentation, a number of people have asked for this on specific drivers they are actively working on and that already are in usable shape.
> That's not true, some of them are being reworked as you type, to be a > "real" wireless driver eventually. > > Incremental development over time is sometimes a good thing, instead of > total rewrites :)
Except it doesn't work for most of the wireless drivers you've sucked in without asking any wireless developers whether that makes any sense or not.
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