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    SubjectRe: Moving unmaintained filesystems to staging
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    On Sunday 29 April 2018 14:07:05 Greg KH wrote:
    > On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 08:11:08AM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
    > > On Wed 2018-04-25 08:46:02, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
    > > > Recently ncpfs got moved to staging. Also recently, we had some fuzzer
    > > > developers report bugs in hfs, which they deem a security hole because
    > > > Ubuntu attempts to automount an inserted USB device as hfs.
    > >
    > > We promise "no-regressions" for code in main repository, no such
    > > promise for staging. We have quite a lot of code without maintainer.
    > >
    > > Moving code to staging means it will get broken -- staging was not
    > > designed for this. I believe moving anything there is bad idea.
    > >
    > > Staging is for ugly code, not for code that needs new maintainter.
    >
    > Staging is used for getting code _out_ of the kernel tree as well as
    > _in_. We use it all the time to move code there, see if anyone shows up
    > in 6-8 months to say "I will fix this!", and if not, we delete it.
    >
    > Look at what just happened to IRDA in the 4.17-rc1 release as an example
    > of this.

    Really a "great" example of deleting working code :(

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    Ondrej Zary

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