Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760556AbYBNS3S (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Feb 2008 13:29:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754617AbYBNS3D (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Feb 2008 13:29:03 -0500 Received: from verein.lst.de ([213.95.11.210]:44360 "EHLO verein.lst.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754019AbYBNS3B (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Feb 2008 13:29:01 -0500 Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 19:26:53 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: Bill Davidsen , Stephen Hemminger , Harvey Harrison , Andrew Morton , David Miller , Jiri Slaby , Pavel Machek , Christoph Hellwig , Dominik Brodowski , Andi Kleen , Adrian Bunk , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Nick Piggin , LKML , Randy Dunlap , Len Brown Subject: Re: Feature Removals for 2.6.25 Message-ID: <20080214182653.GA6456@lst.de> References: <1201829922.23523.68.camel@brick> <47B3AC24.5050605@tmr.com> <20080213185502.0005dd4d@extreme> <47B48564.1010709@tmr.com> <47B4876B.6020100@linux.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <47B4876B.6020100@linux.intel.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-Spam-Score: 0 () Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 927 Lines: 20 On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 10:24:43AM -0800, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > Bill Davidsen wrote: > >Note that because the hardware is old, it's highly likely that most of > >it will be retired before that sk98lin driver needs a change. I can't > >see anyone using sk98lin on a new system, so it would be less > >contentious to let the hardware (or users) die of natural causes if you > >can. > > > > the problem is that the new one DOES NOT GET FIXED. > THAT is a huge problem; it means we have a buggy driver... It's also utterly missing the point. The skge driver supports all the hardware that sk98lin supports. If it doesn't work bug Stephen who's a very responsive maintainer. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/