From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753084AbYIZSgh (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:36:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751707AbYIZSg3 (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:36:29 -0400 Received: from einhorn.in-berlin.de ([192.109.42.8]:57617 "EHLO einhorn.in-berlin.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750885AbYIZSg3 (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:36:29 -0400 X-Envelope-From: stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de Message-ID: <48DD2BA3.7050808@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 20:36:19 +0200 From: Stefan Richter User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.16) Gecko/20080722 SeaMonkey/1.1.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Parag Warudkar CC: Greg KH , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andreas Gruenbacher , Jeff Mahoney Subject: Re: [patch 00/04] RFC: Staging tree (drivers/staging) References: <20080924230054.GA27730@suse.de> <20080925020608.GA13869@suse.de> <20080925042108.GA3931@suse.de> <20080925205328.GB11225@suse.de> <20080925220454.GA12116@suse.de> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Parag Warudkar wrote: > I have repeatedly said it is very easy to see from the > module list for people to decide - not rocket science, definitely not > for developers. The whole TAINT drama is unnecessary. It _is_ necessary. I for one don't want to have to remember that driver foobar was in "staging" state in kernel 2.6.31-rc5, but not anymore in 2.6.32-rc1. -- Stefan Richter -=====-==--- =--= ==-=- http://arcgraph.de/sr/