Re: removing existing working drivers via staging

[Greg KH]

On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 07:42:40PM +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> On Thursday 15 October 2009 18:47:26 Greg KH wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 09:39:51AM -0700, david@xxxxxxx wrote:
> > > however, what I think I saw proposed was to move drivers that need to be 
> > > 'cleaned up', to staging and then dropping them if they don't get cleaned.
> > 
> > What is "proposed" is the following:
> > 
> > 	- For drivers currently in the kernel tree, that the subsystem
> > 	  maintainer, for whatever reason, feels is obsolete / broken /
> > 	  needs major cleaning / wants to get rid of, can be submitted
> > 	  to the staging maintainer to be moved to the drivers/staging/
> > 	  directory.
> 
> This is insanity and opens a door for various forms of abuse.

What do you mean by this?  What kind of "abuse"?
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