[$] What happens to kernel staging-tree code
The staging tree was added to the kernel in 2008
for the 2.6.28 development cycle as a way to ease the process of
getting substandard device drivers into shape and merged into the
mainline. It has been followed by controversy for just about as long. The
recent disagreements over the EROFS and exFAT filesystems have reignited many of the
arguments over whether the staging tree is beneficial to the kernel
community or not. LWN cannot
answer that question, but we can look into what has transpired in the
staging tree in its first eleven years to see if there are any conclusions
to be drawn there.
A lot of code has gone into the staging tree over the years; what happened
to it thereafter?