On Thu, Dec 01, 2016 at 10:40:59AM -0500, Don Zickus wrote: > Unfortunately, there are various drivers that will never go upstream > > - paid storage drivers that provide bells and whistles on top of inbox > driver That's because the developer doesn't want them upstream, that's their fault, nothing we can do about them. > - old drivers/fs that application has been relying on for a long time but > company doesn't have resources to migrate to current technology. That's what drivers/staging/ is for, I'll take anything that builds (and sometimes stuff that doesn't build) as long as people are actually using it. So send the stuff that is in this category on to me and that will reduce your burden a _lot_. thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html