From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752229Ab2DMRlP (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Apr 2012 13:41:15 -0400 Received: from mail-pz0-f52.google.com ([209.85.210.52]:49512 "EHLO mail-pz0-f52.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750773Ab2DMRlO (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Apr 2012 13:41:14 -0400 Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2012 10:41:09 -0700 From: Greg KH To: David Miller Cc: jslaby@suse.cz, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jirislaby@gmail.com, alan@linux.intel.com, andrea@persephoneslair.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] NET: pc300, move to staging as it is broken Message-ID: <20120413174109.GA32536@kroah.com> References: <1334135699-30180-1-git-send-email-jslaby@suse.cz> <20120413.133533.212991624580049561.davem@davemloft.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120413.133533.212991624580049561.davem@davemloft.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 01:35:33PM -0400, David Miller wrote: > From: Jiri Slaby > Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 11:14:57 +0200 > > > It was marked as BROKEN back in 2008. It is because the tty handling > > in the driver is really broken. > > > > There was some activity in January 2012 to fix the driver, but the > > patch was commented to be bogus: > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/29/160 > > and we have not heard back from the author since then: > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/3/28/412 > > > > So since nobody stepped in and rewrote the driver, it is time to move > > it out of line now. And drop it some time later if nobody comes up > > with patches to fix the driver in staging. > > > > Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby > > No objections, I'll let the staging guy handle this :-) > > Acked-by: David S. Miller Thanks, I will :)