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

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Message-ID: <20091015174932.GA3595@suse.de>
Date:	Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:49:32 -0700
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@...il.com>
Cc:	david@...g.hm, 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

On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 07:42:40PM +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> On Thursday 15 October 2009 18:47:26 Greg KH wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 09:39:51AM -0700, david@...g.hm wrote:
> > > however, what I think I saw proposed was to move drivers that need to be 
> > > 'cleaned up', to staging and then dropping them if they don't get cleaned.
> > 
> > What is "proposed" is the following:
> > 
> > 	- For drivers currently in the kernel tree, that the subsystem
> > 	  maintainer, for whatever reason, feels is obsolete / broken /
> > 	  needs major cleaning / wants to get rid of, can be submitted
> > 	  to the staging maintainer to be moved to the drivers/staging/
> > 	  directory.
> 
> This is insanity and opens a door for various forms of abuse.

What do you mean by this?  What kind of "abuse"?
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