From: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
To: david@lang.hm
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>,
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>,
Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: removing existing working drivers via staging
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:40:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AD77AC3.7040905@s5r6.in-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.0910151200100.22169@asgard.lang.hm>
david@lang.hm wrote:
> a driver in staging will be able to build, but a driver that was removed
> after 6-9 months that a user discovered the removal of a year later when
> they upgraded to a new distro release (say a normal ubuntu release after
> staying on the old one for the 18 month support period) is likely to
> need significant work to catch up with kernel changes in the meanwhile.
I don't think this new mechanism is meant to be, or can ever be, a way
to remove things that work and that users need.
Hence the timeline of 3 releases per <20091015164726.GA10125@suse.de>
affects developers/ janitors much more than end users.
--
Stefan Richter
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http://arcgraph.de/sr/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-15 19:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-15 5:27 david
2009-10-15 16:33 ` Stefan Richter
2009-10-15 16:39 ` david
2009-10-15 16:47 ` Greg KH
2009-10-15 17:42 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2009-10-15 17:49 ` Greg KH
2009-10-15 18:20 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2009-10-15 18:46 ` Greg KH
2009-10-15 18:58 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2009-10-15 19:02 ` david
2009-10-15 19:16 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-10-15 19:38 ` david
2009-10-15 19:47 ` Stefan Richter
2009-10-15 19:57 ` david
2009-10-27 4:23 ` david
2009-10-27 5:22 ` David Miller
2009-10-27 5:50 ` david
2009-10-27 14:06 ` Greg KH
2009-10-27 10:45 ` Alan Cox
2009-10-16 7:40 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-10-16 7:58 ` Justin P. Mattock
2009-10-15 19:40 ` Stefan Richter [this message]
2009-10-15 19:49 ` david
2009-10-15 20:56 ` Greg KH
2009-10-16 7:25 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-10-15 18:44 ` Alan Cox
2009-10-15 19:24 ` David Miller
2009-10-17 17:27 ` Pavel Machek
2009-10-19 7:32 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-10-19 7:40 ` Greg KH
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