Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Subject | Re: "whitespace coding style cleanup" broke coding style | From | Joe Perches <> | Date | Wed, 29 Feb 2012 11:32:31 -0800 |
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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 is not just old, it is simply outdated for years and 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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