On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 08:03 +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > On 28.10.2008 01:49, Greg KH wrote: > > So, on my quest to suck up every out-of-tree driver and get it into the > > main kernel tree (drivers/staging/ to start with), I've been pointed at > > the rtl2860 driver. > > Does it really make sense to include a driver when a different one for > mainline inclusion is being actively developed? It might give some > developers the impression that it's worth spending time improving the > rtl2860/2870 drivers -- which might be wasted time in the end. I don't think it makes sense either, at _best_ it'll do nothing but help a few users [1], and if somebody actually starts working on the vendor driver because it's in staging that's actively harmful to the real driver by diverting resources away from it. johannes [1] I used to think the point wasn't to make users happy but to make it easier to work on those drivers, but that objective seems long gone
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