Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 14 May 2004 13:32:02 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] remove comx drivers from tree |
| |
Christoph Hellwig wrote: > the drivers have been broken since pre-2.4.0, like referencing a symbol > that was made procfs-internal in 2.3.x, haven't received maintainer > updates for about the same period and MOD_{INC,DEC}_USE_COUNT usage that > pretty much unfixable (inside warts of _horrible_ procfs abuse). > > I'd say just kill them.
I have applied this to my netdev-2.6 tree, and so it should show up in -mm sometime.
drivers/net/wan/Kconfig | 113 - drivers/net/wan/Makefile | 8 drivers/net/wan/comx-hw-comx.c | 1449 ------------------- drivers/net/wan/comx-hw-locomx.c | 495 ------ drivers/net/wan/comx-hw-mixcom.c | 959 ------------ drivers/net/wan/comx-hw-munich.c | 2853 -------------------------------------- drivers/net/wan/comx-proto-fr.c | 1013 ------------- drivers/net/wan/comx-proto-lapb.c | 550 ------- drivers/net/wan/comx-proto-ppp.c | 268 --- drivers/net/wan/comx.c | 1127 --------------- drivers/net/wan/comx.h | 231 --- drivers/net/wan/comxhw.h | 112 - 12 files changed, 9178 deletions(-)
Even though it is quite moldy, I want to give people some time to object before I remove it upstream.
BTW, I plan to remove rcpci driver at the suggestion of Pete Popov, as well. It seems it's another "hasn't really worked since late 2.3.x days" driver, and nobody really has the hardware from this defunct company anymore, apparently.
Jeff
- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |