linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] vboxsf: move out of staging to fs/

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Message-ID: <20191113053311.GB2036664@kroah.com>
Date:   Wed, 13 Nov 2019 06:33:11 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com>,
        devel@...uxdriverproject.org,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vboxsf: move out of staging to fs/

On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 03:12:53PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 2:54 PM Greg Kroah-Hartman
> <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
> >
> > Christoph, this is what you mean, right?  If so, I'll send this to Linus
> > later this week, or he can grab it right from this patch :)
> 
> No.
> 
> I was unhappy about a staging driver being added in rc7, but I went
> "whatever, it's Greg's garbage"
> 
> There is no way in hell I will take a new filesystem in rc8.
> 
> Would you take that into stable? No, you wouldn't. Then why is this
> being upstreamed now.
> 
> Honestly, I think I'll just delete the whole thing, since it shouldn't
> have gone in in the first place. This is not how we add new
> filesystems.

Fair enough, sorry for the noise.

greg k-h