Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2006 17:24:21 +0200
From: Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@il.ibm.com>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>, Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, gregkh@suse.de,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] mark pci_find_device() as __deprecated
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On Sun, Nov 19, 2006 at 03:06:00PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:

> unmaintained != not used
> 
> As an example, some people might be unhappy if the floppy driver that is 
> unmaintained for ages and not in a good state was removed.

I understand. However, if it was slated to be removed, said people
might be inclined to start maintaining it. We have a bar for inclusion
of new code into the tree - why shouldn't a quality bar also be
applied to old code in the tree?

Cheers,
Muli
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