On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 04:12:20PM -0400, Dan Williams wrote: > On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 11:35 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > I'll gladly drop it from drivers/staging when the "real" version hits > > mainline, until then, it should stay in staging, as that is the whole > > point of it. > > It does nobody any good if (a) the drivers are _never_ going to go > upstream, and (b) if the drivers aren't going to get any attention in > their current form because of (a). > > I don't care if the driver allows peoples hardware to work; I want a > driver that makes peoples hardware work _well_. Out of tree drivers > that are never going upstream will not work well. I think/thought the main point of -staging was to give drivers visibility in hopes of people working to fix them. John -- John W. Linville Linux should be at the core linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx of your literate lifestyle. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
