Re: [PATCH] staging: dgap: Remove myself from the MAINTAINERS file

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On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 10:30:37AM +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 06:05:29AM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 08:56:10AM -0400, Mark Hounschell wrote:
> <snip>
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Mark Hounschell <markh@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > >  MAINTAINERS | 1 -
> > >  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > Shouldn't we also just delete the driver?
> > 
> > sad times,
> You once said in another thread that "staging is not for dumping crap".
> Can't we have a separate dumping ground in kernel where drivers like
> this and the "mali" from the other thread can stay? Only if the opensourced
> part is added there?

Nope, sorry, why would we want "unmaintained crap that no one wishes to
support" in our tree?  Same goes for "mali", it's totally unmaintained,
and the author of it wishes for it to _not_ be included in the upstream
kernel sources.

greg k-h
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