Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 31 Jan 2002 13:28:30 +0100 | From | David Weinehall <> | Subject | Re: A modest proposal -- We need a patch penguin |
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On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 03:17:52PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Martin Dalecki wrote: > > > And then we are still just discussing here how to get things IN. But > > there apparently currently is nearly no way to get things OUT of the > > kernel tree. Old obsolete drivers used by some computer since > > archeologists should be killed (Atari, Amiga, support, obsolete > > drivers and so on). Just let *them* maintains theyr separate kernel > > tree... > > 'old' architectures do not hinder development - they are separate, and > they have to update their stuff. (and i think the m68k port is used by > many other people and not CS archeologists.) Old drivers are not a true > problem either - if they dont compile that's the problem of the > maintainer. Occasionally old drivers get zapped (mainly when there is a > new replacement driver).
To testify that even really old hardware is used, I recently received a patch for 2.0.xx to add autodetection for wd1002s-wx2 in the xd.c-driver. Not particularly recent hardware, but the person who sent the patch uses it. Why deny him usage of his hardware when it doesn't intrude upon the rest of the codebase?
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