compat-drivers: remove full drivers from crap
authorLuis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@do-not-panic.com>
Thu, 18 Oct 2012 22:56:44 +0000 (15:56 -0700)
committerLuis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@do-not-panic.com>
Fri, 19 Oct 2012 17:25:10 +0000 (10:25 -0700)
commit140ba42d9ec7f5869e7162d1a260e04c068e20b7
treef58d47d2a156ade3e3785c8eb0264ff6c3e7b868
parentd73438757618503fb29d4119f0c209e7b961ffec
compat-drivers: remove full drivers from crap

Moving forward no full drivers will be accepted
into crap/. As the alx drivers has proven this only
slows down access to getting users a proper driver.
Restricting the driver to be made available only
through compat-drivers has provided less visibility
and access to the drivers.

The purpose of adding drivers into crap/ over upstream
drivers/staging/ was that some developers may prefer to
not go through the staging development process if they
were sure they could meet the proper upstream quailty
criteria in a timely manner. Practice shows that even
if this is claimed in the end the driver just ends up
bit rotting away in crap/ over a few kernel releases.

Lets stop that. If you want your driver accessible or
automatically backported you have two options:

  * Linux upstream drivers/staging/
  * Linux upstream proper

Choose wisely.

The additional patch directories then remain useful
only for patches content that is already present on
Linux upstream, nothing more.

Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@do-not-panic.com>
crap/network/0001-alx-add-new-QCA-ethernet-driver-which-supercedes-atl.patch [deleted file]
crap/network/0002-backport-alx.patch [deleted file]
crap/network/0003-remove-atl1c-devices-from-alx.patch [deleted file]
crap/network/0004-wireless-adds-the-802.11ad-60-GHz-wil6210-driver.patch [deleted file]