On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 09:30:25AM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote: > On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 07:30:08AM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 08:17:06AM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote: > > > On Sun, Mar 28, 2021 at 02:26:21PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > > > There does not seem to be any developers willing to maintain the > > > > net/qrtr/ code, so move it to drivers/staging/ so that it can be removed > > > > from the kernel tree entirely in a few kernel releases if no one steps > > > > up to maintain it. > > > > > > > > Reported-by: Matthew Wilcox <wi...@infradead.org> > > > > Cc: Du Cheng <duche...@gmail.com> > > > > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> > > > > --- > > > > > > Greg, > > > > > > Why don't you simply delete it like other code that is not maintained? > > > > "normally" we have been giving code a chance by having it live in > > drivers/staging/ for a bit before removing it to allow anyone that > > actually cares about the codebase to notice it before removing it. > > I don't know about netdev view on this, but for the RDMA code, the code > in staging means _not_exist_. We took this decision after/during Lustre > fiasco.
That's fine, each subsystem can set it's own rules for staging code. For networking stuff, the flow-out-through-staging has been happening for some time now. Lustre was a different beast, that was an attempt to get code into the kernel, not out. thanks, greg k-h
