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SubjectRe: Termination of the Philips Webcam Driver (pwc)
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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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