On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 08:11:08AM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > On Wed 2018-04-25 08:46:02, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > Recently ncpfs got moved to staging. Also recently, we had some fuzzer > > developers report bugs in hfs, which they deem a security hole because > > Ubuntu attempts to automount an inserted USB device as hfs. > > We promise "no-regressions" for code in main repository, no such > promise for staging. We have quite a lot of code without maintainer. > > Moving code to staging means it will get broken -- staging was not > designed for this. I believe moving anything there is bad idea. > > Staging is for ugly code, not for code that needs new maintainter. Staging is used for getting code _out_ of the kernel tree as well as _in_. We use it all the time to move code there, see if anyone shows up in 6-8 months to say "I will fix this!", and if not, we delete it. Look at what just happened to IRDA in the 4.17-rc1 release as an example of this. thanks, greg k-h
