Re: The Linux Staging tree, what it is and is not.

From: Lubomir Rintel
Date: Fri Mar 20 2009 - 12:06:20 EST


On Fri, 2009-03-20 at 14:26 +1000, Dave Airlie wrote:
> Staging doesn't fulfill this role from my POV:
> a) what sane distro will enable staging drivers? do they care about their users?

If the code there actually builds, I don't see a problem with packaging
the staging drivers into a -crap subpackage, or maybe blacklisting them
all by default, but saving the user who wants to cut his head off and
watch himself bleed from having to recompile the kernel package for
that.

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Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak@xxxxx>

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