From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Rogier Wolff <R.E.Wolff@bitwizard.nl>
Subject: Re: [RFC 0/5] tty: move stuff around
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 13:54:47 +0200
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On Tuesday 31 August 2010, Rogier Wolff wrote:
> The question is whether I want the drivers I wrote to stay or to
> go away?

More or less, yes.
 
> I was paid years ago to make Linux support the Specialix cards. It
> started with one card from their line of "solutions", but the others
> followed.

The most important question is whether you think that there are people
somewhere in the world that are using the device drivers on machines
with recent kernels.

If you still get bug reports for the drivers, that would be a clear
indication to make them stay, while if you haven't heard from a user
during the last five years, it's probably obsolete enough that it
can be removed (after a few kernels of grace period in drivers/staging).

	Arnd
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