linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86/kbuild: enable modversions for symbols exported from asm

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Date:   Thu, 1 Dec 2016 13:42:54 -0500
From:   Don Zickus <dzickus@...hat.com>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        skozina@...hat.com, Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>,
        Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.com>,
        Adam Borowski <kilobyte@...band.pl>,
        Linux Kbuild mailing list <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>,
        Debian kernel maintainers <debian-kernel@...ts.debian.org>,
        "linux-arch@...r.kernel.org" <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/kbuild: enable modversions for symbols exported from
 asm

On Thu, Dec 01, 2016 at 05:06:11PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 01, 2016 at 10:40:59AM -0500, Don Zickus wrote:
> > Unfortunately, there are various drivers that will never go upstream
> > 
> > - paid storage drivers that provide bells and whistles on top of inbox
> >   driver
> 
> That's because the developer doesn't want them upstream, that's their
> fault, nothing we can do about them.
> 
> > - old drivers/fs that application has been relying on for a long time but
> >   company doesn't have resources to migrate to current technology.
> 
> That's what drivers/staging/ is for, I'll take anything that builds (and
> sometimes stuff that doesn't build) as long as people are actually using
> it.  So send the stuff that is in this category on to me and that will
> reduce your burden a _lot_.

Hi Greg,

I will forward this offer to the right folks and see who we can get to bite.
:-)  Thanks!

Cheers,
Don