Re: [PATCH] vboxsf: move out of staging to fs/

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Wed Nov 13 2019 - 00:33:29 EST


On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 03:12:53PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 2:54 PM Greg Kroah-Hartman
> <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Christoph, this is what you mean, right? If so, I'll send this to Linus
> > later this week, or he can grab it right from this patch :)
>
> No.
>
> I was unhappy about a staging driver being added in rc7, but I went
> "whatever, it's Greg's garbage"
>
> There is no way in hell I will take a new filesystem in rc8.
>
> Would you take that into stable? No, you wouldn't. Then why is this
> being upstreamed now.
>
> Honestly, I think I'll just delete the whole thing, since it shouldn't
> have gone in in the first place. This is not how we add new
> filesystems.

Fair enough, sorry for the noise.

greg k-h