From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753952AbYIZWq1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Sep 2008 18:46:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752445AbYIZWqT (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Sep 2008 18:46:19 -0400 Received: from einhorn.in-berlin.de ([192.109.42.8]:32946 "EHLO einhorn.in-berlin.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752437AbYIZWqS (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Sep 2008 18:46:18 -0400 X-Envelope-From: stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de Message-ID: <48DD662F.7080803@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 00:46:07 +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> <20080925042108.GA3931@suse.de> <20080925205328.GB11225@suse.de> <20080925220454.GA12116@suse.de> <48DD2BA3.7050808@s5r6.in-berlin.de> <48DD4867.4060009@s5r6.in-berlin.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: > On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 4:39 PM, Stefan Richter > wrote: >> Parag Warudkar wrote: >>> Just name the staging modules with _stg prefix like I said - easier to >>> spot _stg in the module list than decoding the taint. >> ... >>> It is nice to not have to change core kernel code and annoy users with >>> warnings >> Yes, let's annoy them with weird name changes instead. > > So people now a days crave for documenting staging modules and also > get confused by the mixed use of driver_stg or driver? Come on. > > The name changes hardly matter for auto loading staging modules I continue to believe that you don't work with users. > and I would be surprised if people document crap modules especially since > the stable ones are documented later if at all they end up being > documented. Many of the staging drivers are already in active use; one or another even for years. Since they are not as easy to use as mainline drivers, people discuss and document them. -- Stefan Richter -=====-==--- =--= ==-== http://arcgraph.de/sr/