On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 16:31 -0400, John W. Linville wrote: > 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. Shouldn't then the mac80211-based at76_usb be in -staging instead? That one might not work completely, but at least it's fixable without a rewrite. johannes
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