Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 27 Aug 2004 10:28:13 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: Termination of the Philips Webcam Driver (pwc) |
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On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > Umm, just because he's piised off we shouldn't removed support for hardware. > it's not like the driver suddenly stops from working because it's unmaintained.
You didn't read what I wrote.
We don't remove drivers because the maintainers go away. There's tons of drivers that have no maintainer.
We remove drivers because the author _asks_ us to. If the person who wrote the code doesn't want the code in the kernel, that's a pretty big deal.
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