Re: removing existing working drivers via staging

[Ingo Molnar]

* david@xxxxxxx <david@xxxxxxx> wrote:

>> Hence the timeline of 3 releases per <20091015164726.GA10125@xxxxxxx>
>> affects developers/ janitors much more than end users.
>
> it may be that I've jumped the gun here with my concerns, and should 
> just wait until something actually gets moved to staging to see what 
> the actual policies are going to be in practice, but the policies as 
> written seem to be very loose.

Note that nothing has changed: the same fine folks who worked for 15+ 
years to give you the OS with the most built-in drivers on this planet 
(more than 3000 drivers today and counting) are handling this too.

Please dont assume that this trend is now being reversed - to the 
contrary - Linux being able to boot out of box on 99% of the systems
out there is one of our biggest strengths.

	Ingo
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