netdev - Re: [PATCH] jme: remove the jme driver as it is no longer maintained

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Date:	Sat, 20 Feb 2016 22:33:19 -0200
From:	Diego Viola <diego.viola@...il.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	cooldavid@...ldavid.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] jme: remove the jme driver as it is no longer maintained

On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 10:16 PM, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:
>
> Sorry, this is not how things work.
>
> You can suggest marking the driver unmaintained in MAINTAINERS if the
> listed developer has been unresponsive for a very long time.
>
> But removing the driver altogether is not prudent at all.
>
> Just because it doesn't work %100 the way you like, and nobody
> has worked on fixing your specific problems, isn't a reason to
> remove an entire driver _nor_ move it to -staging.
>
> In fact, this driver is quite cleanly written, follows all of the
> various coding style rules we have, and uses the vast majority of the
> kernel APIs properly.
>
> And those are the criteria for having something in staging, not that
> it has bugs.
>
> In fact it is so cleanly written, that you should be able to read it
> and figure out what the suspend/resume problem might be.  These are
> exactly the kind of drivers we want to keep in the tree.
>
> I'm sorry that your bugs didn't get fixed, but your response to that
> happening is not reasonable at all.

OK my sincere apologies.

I've been very frustrated trying to deal with this bug and I couldn't
find a solution yet, but I will continue to see what I can do to fix
it.

I would appreciate some hint from someone who is more experienced with drivers.

Anyways, sorry about my behavior.

Diego