Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932455AbZJ0VbO (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:31:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932442AbZJ0VbN (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:31:13 -0400 Received: from earthlight.etchedpixels.co.uk ([81.2.110.250]:53175 "EHLO www.etchedpixels.co.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932440AbZJ0VbN (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:31:13 -0400 Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:32:42 +0000 From: Alan Cox To: david@lang.hm Cc: Greg KH , "John W. Linville" , Pavel Machek , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] strip: move driver to staging Message-ID: <20091027213242.0c2494c5@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: References: <1256015830-12700-1-git-send-email-linville@tuxdriver.com> <20091023161006.GA1580@ucw.cz> <20091026165518.GE2792@tuxdriver.com> <20091026184734.GA21591@suse.de> <20091027140812.GC17208@suse.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: 697 Lines: 14 O> 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? By the fact it never turns up in bugzilla, in kernel questions or in google - and then by deleting it and checking for screaming noises. Do you have a better testing procedure ? -- 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/