Date: Sat, 21 May 2005 13:49:33 +0200 (CEST)
From: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] remove the obsolete raw driver
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Hi,

On Fri, 20 May 2005, Greg KH wrote:

> On Sat, May 21, 2005 at 02:19:25AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > Since kernel 2.6.3 the Kconfig text explicitely stated this driver was 
> > obsolete.
> > 
> > It seems to be time to remove it.
> 
> As much as I would like to agree with you, no, not yet.  Mark it as
> going to go away in the Documenation/feature-removal.txt file 6-8 months
> from now (or longer if people object, but no longer than a year) and
> then after that time expires, we can delete it.

Adding a warning message to the open function would be nice too.
Which user really reads that file?

bye, Roman
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