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SubjectRe: Moving unmaintained filesystems to staging
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.

thanks,

greg k-h

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