Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S270695AbTHFKG4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Aug 2003 06:06:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270696AbTHFKG4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Aug 2003 06:06:56 -0400 Received: from mathematik.uni-freiburg.de ([132.230.2.117]:29830 "EHLO uni-freiburg.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S270695AbTHFKGz (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Aug 2003 06:06:55 -0400 Message-ID: <3F30D33C.3010904@mathematik.uni-freiburg.de> Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2003 12:06:52 +0200 From: Claus-Justus Heine User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de-AT; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312 X-Accept-Language: de-at, de, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mikael Pettersson CC: Adrian Bunk , heine@instmath.rwth-aachen.de, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: time for some drivers to be removed? References: <200308051242.h75CgSj6028203@harpo.it.uu.se> <20030805130324.GC16091@fs.tum.de> <16175.45710.993756.301205@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <20030805134823.GD16091@fs.tum.de> <16175.47282.627835.2678@gargle.gargle.HOWL> In-Reply-To: <16175.47282.627835.2678@gargle.gargle.HOWL> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1680 Lines: 47 Mikael Pettersson schrieb: > Adrian Bunk writes: > > On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 03:35:10PM +0200, Mikael Pettersson wrote: > > > > > > ftape-4.04? That's been a non-integrated external package for ages and ages. > > > I doubt there's been any updates in it for 2.5/2.6 kernels. > > >... > > > > Is there a good reason why it wasn't / isn't integrated? > > Claus-Justus (the official maintainer) never bothered doing it. I gave up trying to update the in-kernel ftape version because I my updates didn't come through (that was before the 2.2 and again before the 2.4 kernels were released). There are more pleasant wastes of time than to try to go through a one-man super-maintainer's eye of a needle. Actually, the in-kernel version of ftape should be replaced or deleted, it is damn outdated anyway and buggy. In principle, there were some attempts to elect a new ftape-maintainer some time ago (Roby Basak, if I remember right). I could provide a kernel patch for 2.4 and 2.6 to update the in-kernel version of ftape if that is wanted. Otherwise I'd suggest to remove me from the maintainer's list and/or delete ftape from the kernel source tree. Greetings Claus -- Dipl.-Math. Claus-Justus Heine Institute for Applied Mathematics Phone: +49-761-203-5647 Hermann-Herder-Str. 10 Fax: +49-761-203-5632 Freiburg University 79104 Freiburg / Brsg., Germany - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/