Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 9 Oct 2008 14:17:20 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [patch 00/04] RFC: Staging tree (drivers/staging) |
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On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:01:37 +0300 Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 04:00:54PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > As we all discussed at the Kernel Summit this past week, I said I would > > create a drivers/staging directory and start throwing lots of drivers > > that are not of "mergable" status into it. > >... > > The 3rd patch creates the drivers/staging/ directory and Kconfig entries > > and adds it to the build system. > > > > The 4th patch is an example of a driver that would go into this > > directory, along with a driver_name.README file detailing what needs to > > be done to this driver for cleanup/fixing, and who to contact about it. > > It's also in such bad shape it doesn't even build against the kernel > > kernel :) > > > > (I'll fix that up before submitting, all drivers should at least build > > properly...) > > > > So, does this all look good to everyone? Any questions/issues? > > > > Oh, I guess I should add a MAINTAINER entry for this section of the > > kernel, so to paraphrase Linus, I now get to be known as the "Maintainer > > of Crap". > > Sorry for being late in the discussion, I'm currently catching up with > my email backlog. > > What does that mean in practice for kernel development? > > Will breaking crap be considered OK? > > As an example, let's assume some crap drivers use the BKL in a way that > it might require the BKL in some core part of the kernel. Will the > person removing the BKL in the core part of the kernel be forced to fix > the locking of all possibly affected crap drivers no matter how broken > and undocumented it is, or can he simply ignore the crap and leave the > fixing to the Maintainer of Crap? >
<collapses in a hysterical seizure>
Every development tree right now will go out and breezily break random other development trees with nary a care in the world.
What difference does one more tree make?
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