From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754087AbbLITie (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Dec 2015 14:38:34 -0500 Received: from lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk ([81.2.110.251]:43503 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753889AbbLITic (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Dec 2015 14:38:32 -0500 Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2015 19:37:32 +0000 From: One Thousand Gnomes To: Dan Carpenter Cc: Julia Lawall , "James E.J. Bottomley" , Ondrej Zary , "Martin K. Petersen" , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, Hannes Reinecke Subject: Re: [patch RESEND] atp870u: 64 bit bug in atp885_init() Message-ID: <20151209193732.5940e706@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20151209182822.GC5284@mwanda> References: <55B9CA3B.1030205@suse.de> <20151209102453.GE3173@mwanda> <20151209115339.46a09d94@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20151209134512.GA5177@mwanda> <20151209141459.41a237c9@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20151209174819.GB5177@mwanda> <20151209182822.GC5284@mwanda> Organization: Intel Corporation X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.12.0 (GTK+ 2.24.28; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > You should just delete that code along with the Kconfig and Makefile > entries. Don't bother moving it to staging. The move to staging is > supposed to give people one last chance to yell if they absolutely need > the code. No one has compiled this code for years so no one will miss > it. And for stuff which might be worth saving (eg something that looks rather broken but has possibly got users) the driver goes into staging in its own directory and the Makefile and Kconfig entry for it move into the staging directory with the hope that someone screams and maintains it. Alan From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: One Thousand Gnomes Date: Wed, 09 Dec 2015 19:37:32 +0000 Subject: Re: [patch RESEND] atp870u: 64 bit bug in atp885_init() Message-Id: <20151209193732.5940e706@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> List-Id: References: <55B9CA3B.1030205@suse.de> <20151209102453.GE3173@mwanda> <20151209115339.46a09d94@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20151209134512.GA5177@mwanda> <20151209141459.41a237c9@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20151209174819.GB5177@mwanda> <20151209182822.GC5284@mwanda> In-Reply-To: <20151209182822.GC5284@mwanda> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Dan Carpenter Cc: Julia Lawall , "James E.J. Bottomley" , Ondrej Zary , "Martin K. Petersen" , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, Hannes Reinecke > You should just delete that code along with the Kconfig and Makefile > entries. Don't bother moving it to staging. The move to staging is > supposed to give people one last chance to yell if they absolutely need > the code. No one has compiled this code for years so no one will miss > it. And for stuff which might be worth saving (eg something that looks rather broken but has possibly got users) the driver goes into staging in its own directory and the Makefile and Kconfig entry for it move into the staging directory with the hope that someone screams and maintains it. Alan