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    SubjectRe: Linux/Pro [was Re: Coding style - a non-issue]
    Oliver Xymoron wrote:
    >
    > On Sun, 2 Dec 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote:
    >
    > > Oliver Xymoron wrote:
    > > >
    > > > On Sun, 2 Dec 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
    > > >
    > > > > > Please consider the following wipe out candidates as well:
    > > > > >
    > > > > > 2. proprietary CD-ROM
    > > > > > 3. xd.c (ridiculous isn't it?)
    > > > > > 4. old ide driver...
    > > > >
    > > > > I know people using all 3 of those, while bugs in some of the old scsi 8bit
    > > > > drivers went unnoticed for a year.
    > > >
    > > > We need a 'prompt for unmaintained drivers' trailing-edge option in the
    > > > build process so people will know when something's been orphaned and pick
    > > > it up.
    > >
    > > There's already CONFIG_OBSOLETE...
    >
    > And it's practically obsolete itself, outside of the ARM directory. What
    > I'm proposing is something in the Code Maturity menu that's analogous to
    > EXPERIMENTAL along with a big (UNMAINTAINED) marker next to unmaintained
    > drivers. Obsolete and unmaintained and deprecated all mean slightly
    > different things, by the way. So the config option would probably say
    > 'Show obsolete, unmaintained, or deprecated items?' and mark each item
    > appropriately. Anything that no one made a fuss about by 2.7 would be
    > candidates for removal.

    The idea behind CONFIG_OBSOLETE is supposed to be that it does not
    actually appear as a Y/N option. You enclose a Config.in option with
    that, and it disappears

    But I'm all for removing old stuff. There is no reason to keep
    something that flat out doesn't work and hasn't for a long long time...
    if somebody wants to pick it up they can grab linux-2.2 or linux-2.0
    from any FTP mirror.

    Jeff


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