[Ksummit-discuss] [MAINTAINER SUMMIT] How can we treat staging drivers better?

Greg KH gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Wed Sep 5 14:22:25 UTC 2018


On Wed, Sep 05, 2018 at 10:08:00AM -0400, Sean Paul wrote:
> > Which ones are you interested in?  I'd always prefer to hand off staging
> > drivers to an existing subsystem but it's not always clear who that
> > should be.
> 
> In the case of vboxvideo, we won't accept it in drm since it's not an
> atomic driver. staging's bar for entry was lower, so the driver was
> stuck in there. Perhaps we would have been better to take it in drm
> behind a config, but that's not ideal either.

for vboxvideo, I am pretty sure I got an "it's ok to put it there" from
the DRM maintainers before I accepted it.  So they know it is there :)

If it's not ever going to be merged, maybe we should just drop it?

thanks,

greg k-h


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