mirror of https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: "Uwe Kleine-König" <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-rt@pengutronix.de,
	"Ian Abbott" <abbotti@mev.co.uk>,
	"Frank Mori Hess" <fmhess@users.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -rt] disable building all staging drivers
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:39:36 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0906231737580.2767@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090623151701.GD30806@kroah.com>

On Tue, 23 Jun 2009, Greg KH wrote:
> > But, after looking into that code I really have to ask you whether you
> > are serious about fixing it instead of rewriting it from scratch and
> > just keep the code as is for reference to the hardware details.
> 
> That is exactly what the code is there for.  There are other groups
> rewriting these drivers from scratch, and hopefully they will be done in
> a kernel release or two and then these drivers can go away.

Ok. I just wondered :)

> If, in the mean time, you don't want them to be built for -rt kernels,
> just send me a Kconfig patch for the individual drivers, not for the
> whole of the staging tree.

Sure, I can mark them individually broken on RT in the -rt patch
itself if we stomp over such issues.

Thanks,

	tglx

  reply	other threads:[~2009-06-23 15:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-13 21:38 Uwe Kleine-König
2009-06-14 11:28 ` Greg KH
2009-06-14 12:34   ` Thomas Gleixner
2009-06-14 23:00   ` Uwe Kleine-König
2009-06-14 23:04     ` Greg KH
2009-06-22 15:15     ` Uwe Kleine-König
2009-06-22 17:19       ` Greg KH
2009-06-22 18:06         ` Daniel Walker
2009-06-22 20:51           ` Greg KH
2009-06-23 11:24         ` Thomas Gleixner
2009-06-23 15:17           ` Greg KH
2009-06-23 15:39             ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2009-09-07 16:20       ` [RT + staging] buildfailures Uwe Kleine-König
2009-09-08 18:11         ` Greg KH

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=alpine.LFD.2.00.0906231737580.2767@localhost.localdomain \
    --to=tglx@linutronix.de \
    --cc=abbotti@mev.co.uk \
    --cc=fmhess@users.sourceforge.net \
    --cc=greg@kroah.com \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=linux-rt@pengutronix.de \
    --cc=u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox

all inboxes | Powered by JetHome®