Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2004 17:32:46 +0100
From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>
To: Daniel Egger <degger@fhm.edu>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
       Linux Kernel Mailinglist <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       jgarzik@pobox.com, linux-net@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] MAINTAINERS: remove LAN media entry
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On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 05:25:23PM +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 04:51:47PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 11:57:11AM +0100, Daniel Egger wrote:
> > > On Feb 27, 2004, at 9:54 pm, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > > 
> > > >IOW:
> > > >The entry from MAINTAINER can be removed?
> > > 
> > > This one for sure. The same is probably sensible for the
> > > drivers, too. It's just too confusing to not several
> > > versions of the driver floating around which need different
> > > tools. And since the manufacturer propagates their own
> > > version, the linux one should go...
> > >...
> > 
> > 
> > It's a question whether removing drivers from a stable kernel series is
> > a good idea, but the following is definitely correct:
> 
> Why do you remove it completely, instead of just marking it unmaintained,
> and remove the address information?
> They when searching you know the you have found the right entry, but
> unfortunately it is unmaintained.

In 2.6.4-rc1-mm2, there's exactly one entry marked "Unmaintained"
(PCMCIA SUBSYSTEM) and there are very few marked "Orphan".

I don't have a strong opinion on this, but my impresion was that usually 
unmaintained device drivers are not listed in MAINTAINERS.

> 	Sam

cu
Adrian

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