linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] isdn: i4l: move active-isdn drivers to staging

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Message-ID: <1483480459.10534.8.camel@tiscali.nl>
Date:   Tue, 03 Jan 2017 22:54:19 +0100
From:   Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, Karsten Keil <isdn@...ux-pingi.de>,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] isdn: i4l: move active-isdn drivers to staging

On Tue, 2017-01-03 at 22:19 +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> Sounds good to me. My original series contained four more patches that
> I did not post again after there was some concern[1] that we did not
> come to a conclusion on:
> 
> isdn: gigaset: remove i4l code

Let me repeat that I'm fine with a patch that does that.

> isdn: move isdnhdlc out of i4l
> isdn: i4l: move hisax driver to staging
> isdn: move i4l to staging
> 
> I can post those as well, at least I think the first two are helpful
> for untangling i4l from the rest of ISDN.  I also still think that
> moving hisax and i4l to staging is reasonable given the state of
> that code, even if there are a couple of users today.

There are? And even if there are: is there any reason to expect that moving
the rest of i4l to staging will result in anything other than a stream of
checkpatch cleanups?

How often did a bunch of drivers re-enter the tree after being sent to
staging?


Paul Bolle