Re: [PATCH 1/4] strip: move driver to staging

From: Joe Perches
Date: Mon Oct 26 2009 - 15:07:57 EST


On Mon, 2009-10-26 at 11:48 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 06:24:34PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > Anyway, for moving to staging, TODO file describing what needs to be
> > fixed before it is brought back was listed as a requirement.
> - A maintainer is needed to take ownership of this driver and
> they must be willing to maintain and test any future api
> changes needed.

There are a lot of files in the tree without assigned maintainers.
(want a list? ;)

I think adding a requirement that files have maintainers before
being added to not-staging is not a good thing.

It is likely that strip could have be deleted without anyone caring.

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