Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753620AbZJ0KoD (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Oct 2009 06:44:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753110AbZJ0KoC (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Oct 2009 06:44:02 -0400 Received: from earthlight.etchedpixels.co.uk ([81.2.110.250]:59594 "EHLO www.etchedpixels.co.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752483AbZJ0KoB (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Oct 2009 06:44:01 -0400 Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:45:24 +0000 From: Alan Cox To: david@lang.hm Cc: Stefan Richter , Ingo Molnar , Greg KH , Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , linux-kernel Subject: Re: removing existing working drivers via staging Message-ID: <20091027104524.2cf3f9a5@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: References: <200910151942.40259.bzolnier@gmail.com> <20091015174932.GA3595@suse.de> <200910152020.13080.bzolnier@gmail.com> <20091015184656.GA29858@suse.de> <20091015191641.GB19467@elte.hu> <4AD77C4F.5010307@s5r6.in-berlin.de> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.2 (GTK+ 2.14.7; x86_64-redhat-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: 1110 Lines: 24 > this is exactly the 'wants to get rid of' category I mentioned being > concerned about below. Why are you concerned, its dead, its defunct, nobody cares, nobody uses it. The same is true of a lot of other junk drivers we have and need to get rid of. > I don't know what was decided at the kernel summit where this was > discussed, how easy is it supposed to be to drop drivers out of the > kernel? If there is someone with the hardware its a trivial git command to put it back and they can then maintain it, but I'm pretty sure that there won't be anyone using this ancient hardware and I really doubt the code even works after the big tty re-arrange. There is a difference between ancient junk people care about (however crazy) and stuff that is just dead and slowing real work (and I have several serial drivers I want to bit bucket such as rio and esp) -- 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/