linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/4] strip: move driver to staging

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Message-Id: <20091026.222112.23063030.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:21:12 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	david@...g.hm
Cc:	gregkh@...e.de, linville@...driver.com, pavel@....cz,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] strip: move driver to staging

From: david@...g.hm
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:17:55 -0700 (PDT)

> On Mon, 26 Oct 2009, Greg KH wrote:
> 
>> Do you have this kind of hardware and are willing to accept ownership
>> of
>> this driver?
> 
> no, I do not have the hardware, but if there are no bugs reported
> against this driverit would seem that having a 'maintainer' who made
> absolutly no changes to the driver (just allowing API changes by
> others to be implemented) would be the same thing as having no
> maintainer, but in the first case you are willing to have the driver
> in the kernel, in the other you want to rip it out.

Nobody is using this driver, and we're pretty damn confident
of that.
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