Will we accept staging driver backporting?

[Adam Lee]

On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 06:22:46AM -0600, Tim Gardner wrote:
> 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.

Oh, it's already in, thanks.

Its directory is called rtl8821ae, but that commit called it rtl8812ae,
mistook me :(

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Adam Lee