On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 07:52:43PM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: > >> Thanks for the clarification. From what I read, I inferred that the > >> driver in /staging was the serialmonkey driver, but it seems I read it > >> wrong, and what it actually means to say was 'this is the vendor driver, > >> it sucks, don't contribute any code to this driver, contribute to the > >> serialmonkey driver instead'. > >> > > > > I had the same confusion. So there are 3 drivers around: The vendor > > driver, the staging driver which is a fork of the vendor driver and > > the serialmonkey driver. Multiply that by 3 for rt2860, rt2870 and > > rt3070. And this leads to another confusion. Do (or will) the Fedora > > kernels have these staging drivers compiled by default? If that's the > > case and if the staging driver is as stable as the original vendor > > driver, I won't have to maintain those kmods anymore. > > The fedora kernel developers have always stated that the > staging/vendor drivers will never get enabled. Only once the other > ones are ready will they be turned on. > No we haven't, we've stated that they'll be enabled if someone steps up to the plate to make an active contribution to maintenance and improvements. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/KernelStagingPolicy regards, Kyle -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
