From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Google-Smtp-Source: AB8JxZpdYJfsIUixy2oq4wToPBVIHoywHd4e2FI9YhKphPa9fee9pprPFlTVQQWMfJcwPFHYygpd ARC-Seal: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; t=1525032466; cv=none; d=google.com; s=arc-20160816; b=vw9fBxbrSgbke1Yvv0LQRRtXfkHgzYKVCVNO02+us3ghPsGfufVCA0sTsqStiDPSVz kk6gvz6s/jhIF2MDe4hUVPRzWuEpT6cI8aF2SmUg33e7KzUwUJ4i3126dvXWLSEFXmwm oIyEO0441vdVmR36qI+pCMPlGNoCUSob9fOJr0hY5P2JSCieI35I5NGEjrH0zHkMKEBN BqDKTfHlU/UYaiu4VmFnlWQ4B4fKy++jjXf+R4TdL22fdibkvHd5AZRhayWI6nrMIpFZ ROgQ9ZdqXNHjAw+h4jiF6lWeqXkNr5UovLaPev7VuV+dIgxx9fiOkm22HC0up6xzii/G 1AJw== ARC-Message-Signature: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=arc-20160816; h=message-id:content-disposition:content-transfer-encoding :mime-version:in-reply-to:references:cc:user-agent:date:subject:to :from:dkim-signature:arc-authentication-results; bh=T74J2whe8V7AZI99fSppWBh9yXd6reSQpUtyFyyKI74=; b=ZE2S7/4sXHssI83YG6xSLXFieP0lred8NMr1ZrWH86OOJSKgDmALIhJyQFuPvIbH+u VO3JFLUK1ruiCKlFFA+iZnDSZhDfO/ACvfJqEPqwGynXGZ8y/P/cbf57YOSeAz+1t/gP H5Yy+8z1wzWJOscqc/n6Vr+XdBGiEXgo9TwfdPRtThvFKE/AqsKBxtRZoL6pDVH4BEuM kgk7pg8hWhIayat8SQtsFewpgpQqLxq1NvjVX5UuZZjJVWZFKi0SMOYnnEhAOWBtFc/Y 14R/wHMAZFWTbl/OpymfGwF+R9m/syH7xOrNd5KKPBD3LjdbgQlbz0y/8gQJwFnn9j5+ XWpg== ARC-Authentication-Results: i=1; mx.google.com; dkim=temperror (no key for signature) header.i=@rainbow-software.org header.s=atlsmtp header.b=HZ/3vIPp; spf=pass (google.com: domain of linux@rainbow-software.org designates 80.94.52.26 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=linux@rainbow-software.org Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; dkim=temperror (no key for signature) header.i=@rainbow-software.org header.s=atlsmtp header.b=HZ/3vIPp; spf=pass (google.com: domain of linux@rainbow-software.org designates 80.94.52.26 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=linux@rainbow-software.org From: Ondrej Zary To: Greg KH Subject: Re: Moving unmaintained filesystems to staging Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2018 22:07:26 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 (enterprise35 0.20100827.1168748) Cc: Pavel Machek , Matthew Wilcox , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20180425154602.GA8546@bombadil.infradead.org> <20180426061108.GB4977@amd> <20180429120705.GA18149@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: <20180429120705.GA18149@kroah.com> X-KMail-QuotePrefix: > MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <201804292207.26775.linux@rainbow-software.org> X-getmail-retrieved-from-mailbox: INBOX X-GMAIL-LABELS: =?utf-8?b?IlxcSW1wb3J0YW50Ig==?= X-GMAIL-THRID: =?utf-8?q?1599112443844355668?= X-GMAIL-MSGID: =?utf-8?q?1599112443844355668?= X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sunday 29 April 2018 14:07:05 Greg KH wrote: > On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 08:11:08AM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > > On Wed 2018-04-25 08:46:02, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > > Recently ncpfs got moved to staging. Also recently, we had some fuzzer > > > developers report bugs in hfs, which they deem a security hole because > > > Ubuntu attempts to automount an inserted USB device as hfs. > > > > We promise "no-regressions" for code in main repository, no such > > promise for staging. We have quite a lot of code without maintainer. > > > > Moving code to staging means it will get broken -- staging was not > > designed for this. I believe moving anything there is bad idea. > > > > Staging is for ugly code, not for code that needs new maintainter. > > Staging is used for getting code _out_ of the kernel tree as well as > _in_. We use it all the time to move code there, see if anyone shows up > in 6-8 months to say "I will fix this!", and if not, we delete it. > > Look at what just happened to IRDA in the 4.17-rc1 release as an example > of this. Really a "great" example of deleting working code :( -- Ondrej Zary