Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:38:07 -0700
From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: david@lang.hm
Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] strip: move driver to staging
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On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 11:39:54AM -0700, david@lang.hm wrote:
> >> now it appears that you have to have 'enough' users (an amount undefined)
> >
> > That amount would be 1.  This driver does not have that, so it can be
> > removed.
> 
> while I definantly agree that this driver is unlikly to have many users, 
> unless it is known broken (which David Miller has stated that it is, but 
> had not been mentioned previously in this thread), how can you know that 
> the number of users has dropped below 1?

As the driver is known to be broken, I would think that the number of
users has dropped below 1 :)

And again, if someone for this driver shows up, it is _trivial_ to add
it back to the tree.

thanks,

greg k-h
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