On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 11:38:06AM +0300, Kalle Valo wrote: > > So what to do? Any ideas? What makes your life easier? You can just > > ignore the staging tree, as it should not affect your portion of the > > kernel at all, right? > > Yes, I automatically ignore anything staging related. But the problem is > that we now have two drivers with the same name and people don't always > remember to prefix the patch with "staging: ". So on a bad day I might > accidentally apply a patch which was meant for your tree. Of course I > immediately revert it as soon as I, or someone else, catches that but > annoying still. It doesn't bother me if you apply staging patches, I can handle the merge issues :) > I think we have two options here: > > 1) We set a deadline (like 12 months or something) for the > drivers/staging/rtlwifi and after that you refuse to take any patches > for it. Hopefully this makes it clear for everyone that this fork is > just temporary. I think Larry is trying to do this, which is great. Fine with me, if Larry is ok with it. > 2) We move the whole rtlwifi driver to staging. A very bad option but > still better than forking the drivers. Ick, I don't want that to have to happen, that would not be good for the users of other devices that the "real" rtlwifi driver supports. thanks, greg k-h
