Staging was picked up as a natural concequence of moving to 2.6.28, no particular policy decision was made to pick it up. As the staging area was seeded using the ubuntu drivers directory much of what we need is in there and is now being maintained so it makes sense for us to switch to the versions therein where possible. A fuller review is planned shortly.
@Tormod -- we are not supposed to be enabling the Staging drivers wholesale:
debian/ config/ amd64/config: CONFIG_ STAGING_ EXCLUDE_ BUILD=y config/ i386/config: CONFIG_ STAGING_ EXCLUDE_ BUILD=y
debian/
And we are expecting to only be including these two drivers from staging at this time:
source "drivers/ staging/ rt2860/ Kconfig" staging/ rt2870/ Kconfig"
source "drivers/
Cirtainly on my systems here I am only seeing one installed:
/lib/modules$ find 2.6.28-7-generic -name prism2_usb.ko 28-7-generic/ kernel/ drivers/ staging/ wlan-ng/ prism2_ usb.ko
2.6.
/lib/modules$
Staging was picked up as a natural concequence of moving to 2.6.28, no particular policy decision was made to pick it up. As the staging area was seeded using the ubuntu drivers directory much of what we need is in there and is now being maintained so it makes sense for us to switch to the versions therein where possible. A fuller review is planned shortly.