Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:38:07 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/4] strip: move driver to staging |
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On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 11:39:54AM -0700, david@lang.hm wrote: > >> now it appears that you have to have 'enough' users (an amount undefined) > > > > That amount would be 1. This driver does not have that, so it can be > > removed. > > while I definantly agree that this driver is unlikly to have many users, > unless it is known broken (which David Miller has stated that it is, but > had not been mentioned previously in this thread), how can you know that > the number of users has dropped below 1?
As the driver is known to be broken, I would think that the number of users has dropped below 1 :)
And again, if someone for this driver shows up, it is _trivial_ to add it back to the tree.
thanks,
greg k-h
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