From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759100AbcCDPZD (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Mar 2016 10:25:03 -0500 Received: from mout.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.130]:49821 "EHLO mout.kundenserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752224AbcCDPZA (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Mar 2016 10:25:00 -0500 From: Arnd Bergmann To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Cc: isdn@linux-pingi.de, Greg Kroah-Hartman , devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, Jonathan Corbet , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] isdn: i4l: move active-isdn drivers to staging Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2016 16:24:19 +0100 Message-ID: <1659125.tHp8H942OG@wuerfel> User-Agent: KMail/4.11.5 (Linux/3.16.0-10-generic; KDE/4.11.5; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <56D7F62E.6050502@linux-pingi.de> References: <1456945629-1793533-1-git-send-email-arnd@arndb.de> <1456945629-1793533-2-git-send-email-arnd@arndb.de> <56D7F62E.6050502@linux-pingi.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:hPB6eJFZIZTPdCsuCq6CG86HaS6+T+JiOs+k1usyPV+yQ74JcFo QuAHwVIq44+1np7UF/G4BYVuWyL6UVhQh4OzXPnbrhOIlPCN6sE2WcAkgHHkFNk8hXD46ze jNOvhwAhS5TCXai4AELM9vKMDBqeFgqv7USs/7DrkMIXc+gGz2jcIcG6FEBXARnAdKqqDX9 WQLO+jKz3XFoTvvMxgNtw== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:dZtyoUkM1/8=:RA5jMpXbe4LHdUW3G5FQsx haiEKCh9bn7dbA7N/phfP95B2u52bCsR8o76TRtfxpa59P5y+wwyos4KMPUoMJsDjDI9x3gNw Urzg3HQq8XTXGAvIGg9u0BjY9xz83YCeyCRycBZjCOJE8/oUcb3563Uof9TEiIXxJg9bhfIbq IA3GqpYjCQqhSoBrahjo345SjH0brvW1aQtbedOLLJU9PedrJev5tP9XLdFSHHIDlNrL6u8+6 Vx4EcEkPfA02NoYilPlyOKHbp12OpvrQ/9hxDXNZTzpqZeF2AzolWRPUPykFz6Sm+HsSEjXvL pPITqemtmu4v0EcMlJ7qblQAm8oW7ccDsFmYyPsuJ35Ve/1gHGsOZX62AP52oyAtRqxFrn0pe kD3a4/IkmHVvoH1T64b2fAfpFCdUoGFun3DnBjnwat+i5i/5bnER+na7J3kaUFBUR+xgf237R 4dXq6s14Rf4Gd3z4wSrpvwyIX7fekKxf6ZGfstywHCPI1vat+sVJVyieYGoPKrRVSHJSf0TUh 0QTbQtXyGbwdn/vva8UIMLuEGlDLGAToWZwOtH9Vw9fwNinwR6I2LXwTOqzMayMcUJH5QZowZ x3uM8om7y9Ryzh4sArCVmprAZOKBZch+y3IjanskFQN3xJ4+Gt4XV0EvwdI8RErrvMxVER+xk GNSwicqE0epPUXsd5yU2/51cgI2afItuTKtGhgqIok3gvQLmGNZlMPt3qO3DmG/6h2BTD/MLv XdOqvNlLKINawjyE Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thursday 03 March 2016 09:30:38 isdn@linux-pingi.de wrote: > Hi Arnd, > I fully agree and ack. > Thanks for the work. > I actually did more patches that I ended up not submitting: * move hisax to staging * remove i4l support from gigaset * move i4l core to staging while I initially thought that i4l as a whole is not just unmaintained but also more or less unused, patch 19cebbcb04c8 ("isdn: Partially revert debug format string usage clean up") came in that indicated that there are still users that even send patches for hisax, and that made me doubt whether we could consider it obsolete enough. Any thoughts on this? If you like, I can send those too. My main motivation was to not have to fix up the ippp implementation when I move the compat ioctl handler from fs/compat_ioctl.c into drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c, but I guess I can do that anyway as it seems that i4l never worked properly in compat mode. Arnd