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Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2001 13:20:14 -0500
From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
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To: Oliver Xymoron <oxymoron@waste.org>
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Subject: Re: Linux/Pro [was Re: Coding style - a non-issue]
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Oliver Xymoron wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 2 Dec 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 
> > Oliver Xymoron wrote:
> > >
> > > On Sun, 2 Dec 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
> > >
> > > > > Please consider the following wipe out candidates as well:
> > > > >
> > > > > 2. proprietary CD-ROM
> > > > > 3. xd.c (ridiculous isn't it?)
> > > > > 4. old ide driver...
> > > >
> > > > I know people using all 3 of those, while bugs in some of the old scsi 8bit
> > > > drivers went unnoticed for a year.
> > >
> > > We need a 'prompt for unmaintained drivers' trailing-edge option in the
> > > build process so people will know when something's been orphaned and pick
> > > it up.
> >
> > There's already CONFIG_OBSOLETE...
> 
> And it's practically obsolete itself, outside of the ARM directory. What
> I'm proposing is something in the Code Maturity menu that's analogous to
> EXPERIMENTAL along with a big (UNMAINTAINED) marker next to unmaintained
> drivers. Obsolete and unmaintained and deprecated all mean slightly
> different things, by the way. So the config option would probably say
> 'Show obsolete, unmaintained, or deprecated items?' and mark each item
> appropriately. Anything that no one made a fuss about by 2.7 would be
> candidates for removal.

The idea behind CONFIG_OBSOLETE is supposed to be that it does not
actually appear as a Y/N option.  You enclose a Config.in option with
that, and it disappears 

But I'm all for removing old stuff.  There is no reason to keep
something that flat out doesn't work and hasn't for a long long time... 
if somebody wants to pick it up they can grab linux-2.2 or linux-2.0
from any FTP mirror.

	Jeff


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