Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:45:24 +0000 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: removing existing working drivers via staging |
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> this is exactly the 'wants to get rid of' category I mentioned being > concerned about below.
Why are you concerned, its dead, its defunct, nobody cares, nobody uses it. The same is true of a lot of other junk drivers we have and need to get rid of.
> I don't know what was decided at the kernel summit where this was > discussed, how easy is it supposed to be to drop drivers out of the > kernel?
If there is someone with the hardware its a trivial git command to put it back and they can then maintain it, but I'm pretty sure that there won't be anyone using this ancient hardware and I really doubt the code even works after the big tty re-arrange.
There is a difference between ancient junk people care about (however crazy) and stuff that is just dead and slowing real work (and I have several serial drivers I want to bit bucket such as rio and esp)
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