On 01/17/2017 05:19 AM, Hans de Goede wrote: > Hi, > > On 17-01-17 14:12, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: >> Lo! Three quick question from someone who for some strange reason is >> interested in this topic: >> >> Hans de Goede wrote on 17.01.2017 13:11: >>> >>> As such I would like to (for starters) add this driver: >>> https://github.com/hadess/rtl8723bs >>> >>> Which is fully open source and although not ready for >>> upstream, actively maintained by the community, to the >>> driver/staging directory of the Fedora kernel pkg. >> >> * wouldn't it make more sense to simply add the driver to the staging >> directory upstream? > > See my answer to Bastien's mail. > >> * will users somehow made aware they are using drivers of lower quality >> which are maintained differently (they for example might vanish suddenly >> if maintainers lose interest, which normally doesn't happen with proper >> kernel drivers) > > Other then the standard tainting caused by this being in staging, no. > >> * while at it: Is https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/KernelStagingPolicy >> still considered policy or is it a page everyone forgot about? > > I for one had never heard about that page. > > Regards, > > Hans
Yes, that page should still be accurate wrt to staging policy although I think the list of drivers might need to be updated. In general, I think upstreaming is the right approach to take and if you are willing to go through staging, I think that could be a good path to work to get the driver out of staging. Thanks, Laura _______________________________________________ kernel mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
