linux-kernel - Re: Staging, place holder for better company/community development model

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Message-ID: <20090308223304.GB11513@kroah.com>
Date:	Sun, 8 Mar 2009 15:33:04 -0700
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
Cc:	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...il.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jouni Malinen <j@...fi>, Sujith <m.sujith@...il.com>,
	Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@...eros.com>,
	Senthilkumar Balasubramanian 
	<Senthilkumar.Balasubramanian@...eros.com>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@...eros.com>
Subject: Re: Staging, place holder for better company/community development
	model

On Sun, Mar 08, 2009 at 01:07:45PM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 23:14 -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> 
> > If we should take this approach -- should we send patches for wireless
> > staging to John, or Greg? It would still be "crap" so I don't expect
> > John to accept to help maintain crap but what if its crap with a clear
> > defined path to un-crap land?
> 
> FWIW, I would MUCH prefer if the staging crap never passed any official
> mailing lists.

What do you mean by this?  You don't ever want to see any staging
patches on any mailing lists?  That doesn't sound helpful.

I can provide a simple procmail rule if you really don't like this kind
of thing, but that seems pretty extreme...
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