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

[Joe Perches]

On Wed, 2018-09-05 at 16:20 +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> I always push code to the
> subsystem-specific maintainers when they are to "graduate", I never
> merge things behind maintainers backs.

Recently, there was an attempt to move code from 'staging'
to a more mainline tree that needed to be reviewed by the
nominal subsystem maintainer.

https://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg520443.html

I believe the nominal maintainer(s) should be involved
somewhat earlier than that.