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11:34:17 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.9.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-GB Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 14/06/2020 01:03, Finn Thain wrote: > On Sat, 13 Jun 2020, Chris Boot wrote: > >> I no longer have the time to maintain this subsystem nor the hardware to >> test patches with. > > Then why not patch MAINTAINERS, and orphan it, as per usual practice? > > $ git log --oneline MAINTAINERS | grep -i orphan My patch to remove it was in response to: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/yq1img99d4k.fsf@ca-mkp.ca.oracle.com/ >> It also doesn't appear to have any active users so I doubt anyone will >> miss it. >> > > It's not unusual that any Linux driver written more than 5 years ago > "doesn't appear to have any active users". > > If a driver has been orphaned and broken in the past, and no-one stepped > up to fix it within a reasonable period, removal would make sense. But > that's not the case here. > > I haven't used this driver for a long time, but I still own PowerMacs with > firewire, and I know I'm not the only one. I expect that if someone finds this useful it can stick around (but that's not my call). I just don't have the time or inclination or hardware to be able to maintain it anymore, so someone else would have to pick it up. Cheers, Chris -- Chris Boot bootc@boo.tc