Messages in this thread |  | | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Date | Wed, 5 Oct 2016 09:32:01 -0700 | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] Staging/IIO driver patches for 4.9-rc1 |
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On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 12:22 AM, Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > > Here is the big staging and IIO driver pull request for 4.9-rc1. > > There are a lot of patches in here, the majority due to the > drivers/staging/greybus/ subsystem being merged in with full development > history that went back a few years, in order to preserve the work that > those developers did over time. This was done the same way that btrfs > was merged into the tree, so all should be ok there.
So I certainly have nothing against merging the development history this way - as you say we've done this before.
However, before I pull this, I do want to understand why pulling it makes sense in the first place.
I realize that people (very much including you personally) have spent lots of effort on greybus, but excuse my somewhat indelicate question: is there any *point* to merging greybus support?
Is anything ever going to use it? With project Ara being dead, where else would you find users? Please fill me in on details - at the very least, even if there realyl *are* good reasons to merge it, that's the kind of information that should go into the pull request and into the merge message.
Linus
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