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Fons Adriaensen wrote:

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> On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 10:35:42PM +0200, Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote:

>

>> the giveaway here is *staging*, or, as greg kh has it, "crap". nothing

>> in staging is needed (or should even be considered) for serious kernels.

>

> I see more and more crap in recent Linux distros, but what

> is this 'staging' thing ?

staging/ is a subtree inside the kernel which is meant for code

contributions from vendors. drivers in there are generally not up to

kernel coding standards and usually break stuff, but the idea is to a)

provide a token of acknowledgement of a vendor's willingness to

cooperate before b) they get their asses flamed off over implementation

details and c) to prevent vendors from spending much work on

non-peer-reviewed, non-released out-of-tree development that will

inevitably lead to b) and much heartache.
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