Re: [PATCH -rt] disable building all staging drivers

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Tue Jun 23 2009 - 11:40:29 EST


On Tue, 23 Jun 2009, Greg KH wrote:
> > But, after looking into that code I really have to ask you whether you
> > are serious about fixing it instead of rewriting it from scratch and
> > just keep the code as is for reference to the hardware details.
>
> That is exactly what the code is there for. There are other groups
> rewriting these drivers from scratch, and hopefully they will be done in
> a kernel release or two and then these drivers can go away.

Ok. I just wondered :)

> If, in the mean time, you don't want them to be built for -rt kernels,
> just send me a Kconfig patch for the individual drivers, not for the
> whole of the staging tree.

Sure, I can mark them individually broken on RT in the -rt patch
itself if we stomp over such issues.

Thanks,

tglx
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