Re: [PATCH net-next] qrtr: move to staging

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:

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On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 08:17:06AM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:

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On Sun, Mar 28, 2021 at 02:26:21PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:

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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 <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Du Cheng <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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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