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News from the staging treeNews from the staging treePosted Sep 10, 2009 12:59 UTC (Thu) by xav (guest, #18536)In reply to: News from the staging tree by ErikA Parent article: News from the staging tree
Nope, otherwise staging will be the place for crappy drivers that no one wants to maintain but that people need anyway for their hardware.
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News from the staging tree Posted Sep 10, 2009 23:20 UTC (Thu) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954) [Link] Nope, otherwise staging will be the place for crappy drivers that no one wants to maintain but that people need anyway for their hardware. You didn't say why that's a problem.
News from the staging tree Posted Sep 11, 2009 8:06 UTC (Fri) by xav (guest, #18536) [Link]
The 'staging' tree is there precisely to avoid dumping low-quality drivers in the kernel. These drivers are in a controlled environment where they are either fixed then integrated in the main tree, or dumped after a while.
If they can stay there indefinately, there will be no motivation to fix them because, well, they're already in the kernel and they kind of work.
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