linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] Staging driver patches for 3.19-rc1

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Message-ID: <548FFCF3.9080303@nod.at>
Date:	Tue, 16 Dec 2014 10:35:47 +0100
From:	Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>
To:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
CC:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"devel@...uxdriverproject.org" <devel@...uxdriverproject.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Staging driver patches for 3.19-rc1

Am 15.12.2014 um 19:56 schrieb Greg KH:
> On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 10:41:03AM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
>> On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 10:39:15AM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>>> On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 07:23:35PM +0100, Richard Weinberger wrote:
>>>> I don't understand this kind of logic.
>>>> a) Binder is considered a piece of shite.
>>>> b) Google is working on a (hopefully sane) replacement.
>>>>
>>>> Why moving it out of staging then? What is the benefit?
>>>
>>> There is none, and Greg didn't even bother addressing the various
>>> comments when this first came up.
>>
>> I thought I did, it was a long thread at the time, and I was on the road
>> for 3 weeks, sorry if I missed something.
>>
>>> So a clear NAK from me on this one.
>>
>> You don't have to maintain it, I do, so why does it concern you?
> 
> Ok, that was a bit snotty on my part, I apologize.
> 
> But really, this is self-contained, doesn't touch any core
> infrastructure, and is really just like any other driver for hardware
> that people don't use.  It shouldn't affect anything elsewhere in the
> kernel, so objecting to it seems odd to me.

Doesn't it use internal stuff from fs/file.c?
Anyway, Linus pulled it.

I'm just a bit astonished that binder finally sneaked into the
core kernel. Hopefully no smart ass will ever decide to make
some userspace component hard depend on it...

Thanks,
//richard
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