Will we accept staging driver backporting?

[Tim Gardner]

On 03/18/2014 02:59 AM, Adam Lee wrote:
> Hi, kernel-team
>
> I'm working on a N+1 enablement bug[1], the driver shows up in staging
> directory now(3c05bedb5fef7a6ada63c5dbf61e1258b9019f05), and Greg K-H
> commented: "After the btcoexist driver gets merged upstream, I'll pull
> it out of here, and will continue to work on removing this version of
> rtlwifi in order to use the in-kernel one."
>
> My question is: is it OK if I backport this staging driver, what's the
> policy of this? Thanks.
>
> [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1239578  No wireless support for Realtek RTL8192EE [10ec:818b]
>

I guess if it works, but we (as a distro team) aren't going to spend any 
time working on bug fixes for a staging driver. I've already pulled one 
back from 3.14, "Staging: rtl8812ae: Add Realtek 8821 PCI WIFI driver". 
I should probably check for 3.14-rc updates since it was originally merged.

rtg
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