Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:50:25 -0700 (PDT)
From: david@lang.hm
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
cc: stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de, mingo@elte.hu, gregkh@suse.de,
       bzolnier@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: removing existing working drivers via staging
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On Mon, 26 Oct 2009, David Miller wrote:

> From: david@lang.hm
> Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:23:35 -0700 (PDT)
>
>> where a driver is being moved to staging because it does not have a
>> maintainer and the only changes to it for some time have been due to
>> kernel API changes.
>
> It's also in a non-working condition and we are very confident
> nobody is using it.
>
> It hasn't been maintained at all for years, it's just taking up
> space.

this is the first I have seen anyone say that the driver doesn't work, 
everything prior had been "I don't know that it works, do you?"

I agree that it's unlikly that many people are using this.

David Lang
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