On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 10:08 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > "Work on", or "USE". > > The problem is, users have this hardware, and they want to run Linux on > it. Many distros already support this hardware with the "crap" driver, > so we might as well add that to the kernel tree so they at least get the > latest "crap" so that users have an easier time of it. > > Now, the fact that there is a competing driver being developed outside > of the tree does make this a bit more complicated. However, as it > doesn't work yet, there's not much we can do about including it, right? > > So adding the driver to the "crap" tree makes users happy in that they > can use their hardware. I'll support the "crap" to a point, and no one > has to do any API changes to the drivers/staging/ tree either, I can > easily handle that. > > Then, when the "correct" driver is finished, I will drop the crap driver > at the same time the "correct" one is added to the tree. > > This way, everyone wins, right? Only if the point is "use" rather than "work on". As far as I understood about staging, the point was more "work on" which would direct effort to the wrong driver. johannes
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