Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760161AbYGQASh (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:18:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751218AbYGQASa (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:18:30 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:34692 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750803AbYGQAS3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:18:29 -0400 Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:18:18 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: yoichi_yuasa@tripeaks.co.jp, ralf@linux-mips.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove old broken Cobalt LCD driver Message-Id: <20080716171818.0e6a45b1.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20080716171640.4e1ae418.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <20080715223132.e2d217e8.yoichi_yuasa@tripeaks.co.jp> <20080716171640.4e1ae418.akpm@linux-foundation.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.4 (GTK+ 2.8.20; i486-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 830 Lines: 25 On Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:16:40 -0700 Andrew Morton wrote: > On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:31:32 +0900 > Yoichi Yuasa wrote: > > > Remove old broken Cobalt LCD driver. > > > > Signed-off-by: Yoichi Yuasa > > Why do we remove it, rather than unbreaking it? > > Did some other driver replace it? Does nobody need the driver any > more? doh. That's what I get for processing patches in reverse-time-order. So there's no point in retaining both the old driver and the new one for some period of time? -- 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/