Messages in this thread | | | From | "Russell, Nathaniel" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] trivial patch for 2.4.20-pre1 8139too.c driver (fwd) | Date | Tue, 06 Aug 2002 15:28:56 -0400 |
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Russell, Nathaniel wrote: >My i ask what the sense is to not remove the dead code if > all we are trying to do is stablize the 2.4x kernel series > and not add extra code or change around the drivers for > perticular hardware. The code is not used anymore so why > keep it in the 2.4x series. The code can stay in the 2.5x > series no problem because there we can change drivers > rewrite hardware protocalls and tthings like that.
...because I maintain the driver, and want to keep that code around as a note to myself.
Jeff
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