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From: tedheadster <tedheadster@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Thoughts on staging and on fixing up drivers?
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2017 17:07:54 -0400
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>
> Larry, you've migrated a bunch of staging code, and tried various
> approaches.  Do you have any lessons on what has worked and what hasn't
> and if there is anything we can do to make the process better?

I am also quite interested in such work. We asked for a Birds of
Feather discussion at the upcoming Linux Plumbers conference on
exactly this sort of work.

- Matthew