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