linux-kernel - Re: removing existing working drivers via staging

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Date:	Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:40:51 +0200
From:	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>
To:	david@...g.hm
CC:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>,
	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@...il.com>,
	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: Re: removing existing working drivers via staging

david@...g.hm wrote:
> a driver in staging will be able to build, but a driver that was removed
> after 6-9 months that a user discovered the removal of a year later when
> they upgraded to a new distro release (say a normal ubuntu release after
> staying on the old one for the 18 month support period) is likely to
> need significant work to catch up with kernel changes in the meanwhile.

I don't think this new mechanism is meant to be, or can ever be, a way
to remove things that work and that users need.

Hence the timeline of 3 releases per <20091015164726.GA10125@...e.de>
affects developers/ janitors much more than end users.
-- 
Stefan Richter
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