academia contribution to the kernel

[Greg KH]

On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 04:30:15PM +0200, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
> On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 2:58 PM, Greg KH <greg at kroah.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 09:44:25PM +1200, Ronnie Collinson wrote:
> >> Quite generic, but over the last N months or year what feature or some form of
> >> milestone has excited and/or pleased you the most, excluding 2.3 numbering.
> >> Could be intersting.
> >
> > Ah, yes, you were not the first one to think of this one, it's on my
> > list already :)
> >
> 
> I have another question. Maybe a silly one but here it goes:

Not silly at all.

> As far as I know linux staging is not only a mean to add code that
> still is not in a mergeable form but also to deprecate old code. This
> also applies to old subsystem like IBM MCA and ISA? Are these old
> buses and ancient architectures being deprecated in the next 3.x
> releases?

Nice point, I'll try to work it in.

thanks,

greg k-h