> > And that's the problem. This happens all the time with kernel > drivers, everyone wants the end result of a driver but the > work to actually make it sustainable never gets done. Unless > a driver is actually merged in the upstream kernel, it's not > going to work in the long term. Keeping the driver out of tree > means it loses out on review and updates coming from the > kernel community which is better for the driver in the long > term. I've no horse in this race, but I've maintained things in the Fedora kernel, and it's a losing game, you'll get bored keeping up with it. As for staging, the path out of staging can be that another driver will subsume the functionality and then this driver will be removed, afaik we did this for some drivers before. However I don't think we should be taking on any downstream responsiblity for drivers we aren't willing to spend time on getting upstream, it gives people less reason to bother doing things properly. Dave. _______________________________________________ kernel mailing list -- kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to kernel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
