netdev - Re: [PATCH] staging: Revert "staging: qlge: Retire the driver"

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Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2023 14:04:44 -0700
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Benjamin Poirier <benjamin.poirier@...il.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, Kira
 <nyakov13@...il.com>, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet
 <edumazet@...gle.com>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, Jonathan Corbet
 <corbet@....net>, Manish Chopra <manishc@...vell.com>,
 GR-Linux-NIC-Dev@...vell.com, Coiby Xu <coiby.xu@...il.com>, "James E.J.
 Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@...senpartnership.com>, Helge Deller
 <deller@....de>, Sven Joachim <svenjoac@....de>, Ian Kent
 <raven@...maw.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-parisc@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-staging@...ts.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: Revert "staging: qlge: Retire the driver"

On Mon, 30 Oct 2023 12:33:55 -0400 Benjamin Poirier wrote:
> > I'm all this, if you want to, but I would like it out of staging.  So  
> 
> I'd like it out of staging as well. Since nobody wants to maintain it, I
> think it should be deleted. However, my understanding is that Jakub is
> willing to take it back into drivers/net/ as-is given that there is at
> least one user. Jakub, did I understand that correctly?

Yes, of all the bad options this one seems least.. unusual.

To be clear - we can take the revert to net, and then the follow up /
move would go to net-next (after -rc1, for v6.8)? My initial thought 
was to get the move done in 6.7 as well, but I guess that'd be churn 
we don't want at this stage..