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SubjectRe: "whitespace coding style cleanup" broke coding style
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On Wed, 2012-02-29 at 09:27 +0100, Armin Schindler wrote:
> On 02/29/2012 12:28 AM, Joe Perches wrote:
> > One of those, Armin Schindler, (cc'd) hasn't
> > signed a single commit in git history.
> True, my last work here was a long time ago.
> I used to maintain the eicon driver, but this driver
> is not just old, it is simply outdated for years and
> I doubt someone will ever use it in newer kernels.
> It just creates work here.

You could remove yourself from MAINTAINERS if you want.

MAINTAINERS | 3 +--
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 5d3ae86..d40a974 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -3682,10 +3682,9 @@ F: include/linux/isdn.h
F: include/linux/isdn/

ISDN SUBSYSTEM (Eicon active card driver)
-M: Armin Schindler <mac@melware.de>
L: isdn4linux@listserv.isdn4linux.de (subscribers-only)
W: http://www.melware.de
-S: Maintained
+S: Orphan
F: drivers/isdn/hardware/eicon/

IT87 HARDWARE MONITORING DRIVER
> Some time ago I asked (I don't remember who) why
> don't we remove that old driver from the kernel.
> It wasn't done because there is no follow up for the
> kernel. The new drivers out there are maintained,
> but will never be part of the kernel (coding style, etc.).
> I guess the idea was not to remove a driver from the kernel
> when there is no alternative (in kernel).
> Maybe I should bring this up again and ask for a removal of the
> current eicon driver in kernel...

Your choice.

It could be moved to staging as a prelude to removing
it after a few releases.

I did do a rather large drive-by whitespace cleanup
of eicon. It still compiles. I've no idea if it
still works though.

cheers, Joe



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