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Message-ID: <20091026191740.GA31910@suse.de> Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:17:40 -0700 From: Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de> To: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>, "John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] strip: move driver to staging On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 12:07:43PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > On Mon, 2009-10-26 at 11:48 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 06:24:34PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: > > > Anyway, for moving to staging, TODO file describing what needs to be > > > fixed before it is brought back was listed as a requirement. > > - A maintainer is needed to take ownership of this driver and > > they must be willing to maintain and test any future api > > changes needed. > > There are a lot of files in the tree without assigned maintainers. > (want a list? ;) > > I think adding a requirement that files have maintainers before > being added to not-staging is not a good thing. > > It is likely that strip could have be deleted without anyone caring. Ok, then we can delete it, but I was trying to be nice here and provide a way for people to "rescue" it with a nice announcement and grace period. Geesh, see what I get for being nice... greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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