Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 16 Apr 2007 16:13:37 -0700 | From | Randy Dunlap <> | Subject | Re: so what *is* obsolete and removable? |
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On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 00:39:10 +0200 Tilman Schmidt wrote:
> Am 15.04.2007 22:55 schrieb Robert P. J. Day: > > as i recall, the isdn4linux was *un*obsoleted, wasn't it? > > Actually, it wasn't. > > We *did* reach a consensus that isdn4linux is not obsolete in the > accepted sense of the word, because there is no replacement for it > so far. > > OTOH I have since submitted (twice, in fact) a patch that would remove > the "(obsolete)" label from the Kconfig entry, but somehow nothing > ever became of it. My submissions just linger in LKML, uncommented and > unmerged.
Did you submit the patch to Andrew Morton? Is the patch in the -mm patchset? Did Karsten ack the patch?
If the patch is in -mm and it's not critical (like this subject), then it probably won't be merged until after 2.6.21 is released...
> To sum it up, we agree that the "(obsolete)" label is wrong, but we > won't remove it. I have no idea how to resolve that situation. > > What I do know is that it would be very wrong to remove isdn4linux, > because it has an existing userbase with nowhere else to go.
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