Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:43:17 -0400 | From | "John W. Linville" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/4] strip: move driver to staging |
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On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 10:18:20AM -0700, david@lang.hm wrote: > On Mon, 26 Oct 2009, John W. Linville wrote:
>> "ongoing maintenance for no clear benefit" -- that is what is wrong >> with it. > > supporting existing hardware is no longer a 'clear benifit'?
Do you own or have access to such hardware? If the hardware is obsolete, unused, and mostly non-existant then what is the benefit to maintaining a driver that is rotting?
> is this driver broken (as in not working)?
I have no idea. I suspect that you don't know either.
> other than the fact that you don't think many people have this hardware, > is there anything wrong with this driver?
It sits there, bloating the target area for API maintenance and providing a likely broken example of how to write Linux drivers.
> if this driver hasn't been changed other than for blanket API changes, > how is it causing significant problems?
It is a distraction for no clear (or even murky) benefit, one more thing to keep compiling.
> if someone were to claim 'maintainership' and then do nothing other than > complain if someone else were to change an API but not fix this in the > process, how would this be different than the current situation?
Not much different, possibly worse if they created a bigger distraction. But if they actually had the hardware we might at least be confident that the effort was in some way worthwhile...
John -- John W. Linville Someday the world will need a hero, and you linville@tuxdriver.com might be all we have. Be ready.
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