Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Termination of the Philips Webcam Driver (pwc) | From | Xavier Bestel <> | Date | Fri, 27 Aug 2004 19:37:35 +0200 |
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Le ven 27/08/2004 à 19:28, Linus Torvalds a écrit :
> 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.
What if someone steps up and want to maintain and extend this piece of code ? Will you forbid him (as in "not in my tree") ?
Xav
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