Re: [PATCH 1/3] NET: pc300, move to staging as it is broken

From: David Miller
Date: Fri Apr 13 2012 - 13:36:13 EST


From: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 11:14:57 +0200

> It was marked as BROKEN back in 2008. It is because the tty handling
> in the driver is really broken.
>
> There was some activity in January 2012 to fix the driver, but the
> patch was commented to be bogus:
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/29/160
> and we have not heard back from the author since then:
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/3/28/412
>
> So since nobody stepped in and rewrote the driver, it is time to move
> it out of line now. And drop it some time later if nobody comes up
> with patches to fix the driver in staging.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx>

No objections, I'll let the staging guy handle this :-)

Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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