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Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 13:45:31 +0000
From: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Subject: Re: A modest proposal -- We need a patch penguin
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On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 04:07:52PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> it's not mandatory for the developer to push every interface change into
> every driver or every architecture. Sure, if some code has not been kept
> in sync for a long time then it should be zapped,

add "by the maintainer, if they are still around" here please.

> but the pure fact that
> something is less often used should not make it a candidate for zapping.

-- 
Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)                The developer of ARM Linux
             http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html

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