On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 12:56 AM, Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 Problem is distributions already ship crap anyway. Luis -- 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
