Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 17:31:18 +0200
From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>
To: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Cc: Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: time for some drivers to be removed?
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On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 08:20:44AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> 
>   i've mentioned this before, but in a perfect world, should it
> be possible to build a release version of the kernel with
> "make allyesconfig".  this is generally not possible, since there's
> always the occasional broken driver that just won't compile.
> 
>   more to the point, there are drivers that seem to be perpetually
> broken.  as an example, the riscom8 driver has been borked for as 
> long as i can remember.  at some point, shouldn't something like
> this either be fixed or just removed?  what's the point of 
> perpetually bundling a driver that doesn't even compile?

A first patch is at
  http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0306.2/0770.html

I'll send an updated patch against -test2 or -test3.

Ideally, these drivers will be fixed during 2.6 when more people start 
using 2.6...

> rday

cu
Adrian

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