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

From: Greg KH
Date: Fri Apr 13 2012 - 13:41:10 EST


On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 01:35:33PM -0400, David Miller wrote:
> 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>

Thanks, I will :)
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