Re: [PATCH] x86/kbuild: enable modversions for symbols exported from asm
- To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
- Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>, skozina@redhat.com, Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>, Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>, Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl>, Linux Kbuild mailing list <linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org>, Debian kernel maintainers <debian-kernel@lists.debian.org>, "linux-arch@vger.kernel.org" <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/kbuild: enable modversions for symbols exported from asm
- From: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
- Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2016 13:42:54 -0500
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On Thu, Dec 01, 2016 at 05:06:11PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 01, 2016 at 10:40:59AM -0500, Don Zickus wrote:
> > Unfortunately, there are various drivers that will never go upstream
> >
> > - paid storage drivers that provide bells and whistles on top of inbox
> > driver
>
> That's because the developer doesn't want them upstream, that's their
> fault, nothing we can do about them.
>
> > - old drivers/fs that application has been relying on for a long time but
> > company doesn't have resources to migrate to current technology.
>
> That's what drivers/staging/ is for, I'll take anything that builds (and
> sometimes stuff that doesn't build) as long as people are actually using
> it. So send the stuff that is in this category on to me and that will
> reduce your burden a _lot_.
Hi Greg,
I will forward this offer to the right folks and see who we can get to bite.
:-) Thanks!
Cheers,
Don
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