From: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
To: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>, Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>,
Parag Warudkar <parag.lkml@gmail.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>,
Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [patch 00/04] RFC: Staging tree (drivers/staging)
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 23:51:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48DC07E0.5090007@s5r6.in-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48DBFCDD.5090908@oracle.com>
Randy Dunlap wrote:
>>> ISTM that the real problems are (a) it's easier to introduce new staging/crap
>>> than it is to fix EXPERIMENTAL and (b) no one wants to try to fix EXPERIMENTAL.
...
> I don't disagree with the CRAP name... fwiw.
> I think that we have enough quality problems without adding crap.
True. OTOH many if not most of the -staging drivers are ones which are
already in use. Their users already deal with whatever quality problems
these drivers have, in addition to having to fight with the installation
hassles that are inherent to out-of-tree drivers.
--
Stefan Richter
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http://arcgraph.de/sr/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-25 21:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2008-09-24 23:00 ` Greg KH
2008-09-24 23:01 ` [patch 01/04] Staging: add TAINT_CRAP for all drivers/staging code Greg KH
2008-09-24 23:01 ` [patch 02/04] Staging: add TAINT_CRAP flag to drivers/staging modules Greg KH
2008-09-24 23:01 ` [patch 04/04] USB: add princeton instruments usb camera driver Greg KH
2008-09-24 23:01 ` [patch 03/04] Staging: add Kconfig entries and Makefile infrastructure Greg KH
2008-09-24 23:39 ` [patch 00/04] RFC: Staging tree (drivers/staging) Parag Warudkar
2008-09-25 1:03 ` Randy Dunlap
2008-09-25 2:06 ` Greg KH
2008-09-25 2:06 ` Greg KH
2008-09-25 2:59 ` Parag Warudkar
2008-09-25 4:21 ` Greg KH
2008-09-25 11:02 ` Parag Warudkar
2008-09-25 20:53 ` Greg KH
2008-09-25 21:40 ` Parag Warudkar
2008-09-25 22:04 ` Greg KH
2008-09-25 22:22 ` Parag Warudkar
2008-09-26 18:36 ` Stefan Richter
2008-09-26 20:11 ` Parag Warudkar
2008-09-26 20:19 ` Greg KH
2008-09-26 20:56 ` Parag Warudkar
2008-09-26 22:03 ` Greg KH
2008-09-26 21:00 ` Leon Woestenberg
2008-09-26 22:04 ` Greg KH
2008-09-26 20:39 ` Stefan Richter
2008-09-26 20:47 ` Parag Warudkar
2008-09-26 22:46 ` Stefan Richter
2008-09-25 5:27 ` Paul Mundt
2008-09-25 14:49 ` Randy Dunlap
2008-09-25 17:53 ` Randy Dunlap
2008-09-25 20:48 ` Greg KH
2008-09-25 21:04 ` Randy Dunlap
2008-09-25 21:51 ` Stefan Richter [this message]
2008-10-06 15:11 ` config_experimental was " Pavel Machek
2008-10-09 21:01 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-10-09 21:08 ` Greg KH
2008-10-09 21:17 ` Andrew Morton
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