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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	skozina@redhat.com, Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>,
	Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>,
	Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl>,
	Linux Kbuild mailing list <linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org>,
	Debian kernel maintainers <debian-kernel@lists.debian.org>,
	"linux-arch@vger.kernel.org" <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/kbuild: enable modversions for symbols exported from asm
Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2016 17:06:11 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161201160611.GA30910@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161201154059.GC35881@redhat.com>

On Thu, Dec 01, 2016 at 10:40:59AM -0500, Don Zickus wrote:
> Unfortunately, there are various drivers that will never go upstream
> 
> - paid storage drivers that provide bells and whistles on top of inbox
>   driver

That's because the developer doesn't want them upstream, that's their
fault, nothing we can do about them.

> - old drivers/fs that application has been relying on for a long time but
>   company doesn't have resources to migrate to current technology.

That's what drivers/staging/ is for, I'll take anything that builds (and
sometimes stuff that doesn't build) as long as people are actually using
it.  So send the stuff that is in this category on to me and that will
reduce your burden a _lot_.

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2016-12-01 16:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 113+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <a73aec83-ddad-2bdf-e612-178c9936a16f@manjaro.org>
     [not found] ` <20161102004639.6870806d@roar.ozlabs.ibm.com>
2016-11-23 20:08   ` BUG: 4.9-rc6 Still "no symbol version" on boot Philip Müller
2016-11-23 20:14     ` Robert LeBlanc
2016-11-23 20:27       ` Philip Müller
2016-11-23 20:53     ` Adam Borowski
2016-11-23 21:01       ` Robert LeBlanc
2016-11-23 21:02       ` [PATCH] x86/kbuild: enable modversions for symbols exported from asm Adam Borowski
2016-11-23 23:10         ` Philip Müller
2016-11-24  4:40         ` Ingo Molnar
2016-11-24  5:20           ` Nicholas Piggin
2016-11-24  6:00             ` Ingo Molnar
2016-11-24  7:20               ` Nicholas Piggin
2016-11-24  7:36                 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2016-11-24  7:53                   ` Nicholas Piggin
2016-11-24  9:32                     ` Michal Marek
2016-11-24 10:03                       ` Nicholas Piggin
2016-11-24 10:51                         ` Michal Marek
2016-11-24  9:38                     ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-11-24 10:01                       ` Nicholas Piggin
2016-11-24  9:56                     ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2016-11-24 10:31                       ` Nicholas Piggin
2016-11-24 15:24                         ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2016-11-25  0:40                           ` Nicholas Piggin
2016-11-25 18:00                             ` Linus Torvalds
2016-11-26  0:37                               ` Nicholas Piggin
2016-11-29  1:15                               ` Ben Hutchings
2016-11-29  2:31                                 ` Nicholas Piggin
2016-11-29  9:14                                   ` Michal Marek
2016-11-29  4:08                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2016-11-29 13:19                                   ` Adam Borowski
2016-11-29 13:29                                     ` Ingo Molnar
2016-11-29 14:24                                       ` Adam Borowski
2016-11-29 13:51                                     ` Adam Borowski
     [not found]                                       ` <CA+55aFyZiB4YkwvqzrXO=HD8bcnc2xHkAYrek2QHVnhVvAi3Fw@mail.gmail.com>
2016-11-29 16:03                                         ` Michal Marek
2016-11-29 16:17                                           ` Linus Torvalds
2016-11-29 19:57                                             ` Ben Hutchings
2016-11-29 20:35                                               ` Linus Torvalds
2016-11-30 18:18                                                 ` Nicholas Piggin
2016-11-30 18:40                                                   ` Linus Torvalds
2016-11-30 21:33                                                     ` Ben Hutchings
2016-12-01  1:55                                                       ` Nicholas Piggin
2016-12-01  2:35                                                         ` Ben Hutchings
2016-12-01  3:39                                                           ` Nicholas Piggin
2016-12-01 16:12                                                             ` Michal Marek
2016-12-02 14:36                                                               ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2016-12-09  3:33                                                               ` Nicholas Piggin
2016-12-09 15:21                                                                 ` Ian Campbell
2016-12-09 16:15                                                                   ` Nicholas Piggin
2016-12-09 22:46                                                                     ` Dodji Seketeli
2016-12-10 12:41                                                                       ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2016-12-12  3:50                                                                         ` Nicholas Piggin
2016-12-12  9:08                                                                         ` Ian Campbell
2016-12-14 17:59                                                                         ` Don Zickus
2016-12-13  1:07                                                                       ` Stanislav Kozina
2016-12-13 22:51                                                                       ` Michal Marek
2016-12-14  8:58                                                                         ` Dodji Seketeli
2016-12-14  9:15                                                                           ` Michal Marek
2016-12-14  9:36                                                                             ` Dodji Seketeli
2016-12-14  9:44                                                                               ` Michal Marek
2016-12-14 10:02                                                                                 ` Dodji Seketeli
2016-12-14 10:15                                                                                   ` Michal Marek
2016-12-14  9:56                                                                               ` Dodji Seketeli
2016-12-14  9:37                                                                             ` Michal Marek
2016-12-01  4:13                                                     ` Don Zickus
2016-12-01  4:32                                                       ` Nicholas Piggin
2016-12-01 15:20                                                         ` Don Zickus
2016-12-01 15:26                                                           ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-12-01 15:40                                                             ` Don Zickus
2016-12-01 16:06                                                               ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2016-12-01 18:42                                                                 ` Don Zickus
2016-12-09  3:50                                                           ` Nicholas Piggin
2016-12-09  7:55                                                             ` Stanislav Kozina
2016-12-09  8:14                                                               ` Nicholas Piggin
2016-12-09 14:36                                                                 ` Stanislav Kozina
2016-12-09 15:56                                                                   ` Nicholas Piggin
2016-12-09 16:03                                                                     ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2016-12-12  9:48                                                                       ` Stanislav Kozina
2016-12-13  7:25                                                                         ` Nicholas Piggin
2016-12-14 14:04                                                                       ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2016-12-15  2:06                                                                         ` Nicholas Piggin
2016-12-15 11:19                                                                           ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2016-12-15 12:03                                                                             ` Nicholas Piggin
2016-12-15 13:15                                                                               ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2016-12-15 14:15                                                                                 ` Nicholas Piggin
2016-12-15 15:17                                                                                   ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2016-12-15 13:35                                                                               ` Stanislav Kozina
2016-12-09 16:16                                                             ` Don Zickus
2016-12-01 10:48                                                       ` Stanislav Kozina
2016-12-01 11:09                                                         ` Nicholas Piggin
2016-12-01 11:33                                                           ` Stanislav Kozina
2016-12-01 12:39                                                             ` Nicholas Piggin
2016-12-01 15:19                                                           ` Dodji Seketeli
2016-12-01 16:14                                                       ` Michal Marek
2016-11-29 17:05                                         ` Adam Borowski
2016-11-29 17:10                                           ` Linus Torvalds
2016-11-29 17:14                                             ` Linus Torvalds
2016-12-01 13:58                                               ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-12-01 16:21                                                 ` Michal Marek
2016-12-01 18:26                                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2016-12-02 10:55                                                   ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-12-02 12:40                                                     ` [RFC, PATCH, v3.9] default exported asm symbols to zero Arnd Bergmann
2016-12-02 12:59                                                       ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2016-12-02 14:51                                                         ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-12-02 15:35                                                       ` Adam Borowski
2016-12-03  4:36                                                       ` Ben Hutchings
2016-12-03 10:43                                                         ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-12-02 17:04                                                     ` [PATCH] x86/kbuild: enable modversions for symbols exported from asm Linus Torvalds
2016-12-04  7:44                                                     ` Alan Modra
2016-12-04 20:44                                                       ` Linus Torvalds
2016-11-29 21:23                                             ` Michal Marek
2016-11-24  9:25           ` Michal Marek
2016-11-24 11:42         ` Regression: " Kalle Valo
2016-11-23 23:07       ` BUG: 4.9-rc6 Still "no symbol version" on boot Philip Müller
2016-11-28 17:10         ` Robert LeBlanc

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