On Sun, Nov 01, 2015 at 02:10:48PM +0200, Or Gerlitz wrote: > On 10/29/2015 1:51 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > >On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 10:57:59PM -0400, Doug Ledford wrote: > >>>> >I had to do a minor hand merge to get this to apply, but it has been > >>>> >pulled in for 4.4. > >>> > >>>This breaks all of the drivers in staging BTW. That will need fixed up > >>>before the pull request goes in during the merge window. > >That latest branch on infradead.org should have fixed all the staging > >drivers. But Linus just clarified that we indeed do not have to care for > >staging drivers, I asked him at kernel summit in front of the whole audience. > > Can you and/or Greg clarify this a little further... when someone modified > an API called by others > drivers, they don't have to deal with staging drivers? Yes, that is correct. > that is, the folks that care for this staging code need to handle > that? Yes, that is correct. It's up to the owners of the staging drivers to do the work, we do not make it the responsibility of anyone else. Now most of the time people are nice and fix up everything else, but it's not a requirement at all. hope this helps, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
