linux-kernel - Re: Moving unmaintained filesystems to staging

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Message-ID: <20180426061108.GB4977@amd>
Date:   Thu, 26 Apr 2018 08:11:08 +0200
From:   Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:     Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
Cc:     linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Moving unmaintained filesystems to staging

On Wed 2018-04-25 08:46:02, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> Recently ncpfs got moved to staging.  Also recently, we had some fuzzer
> developers report bugs in hfs, which they deem a security hole because
> Ubuntu attempts to automount an inserted USB device as hfs.

We promise "no-regressions" for code in main repository, no such
promise for staging. We have quite a lot of code without maintainer.

Moving code to staging means it will get broken -- staging was not
designed for this. I believe moving anything there is bad idea.

Staging is for ugly code, not for code that needs new maintainter.
									Pavel
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