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Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2002 13:44:17 -0400
From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
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Russell, Nathaniel wrote:
> My i ask what the sense is to not remove the dead code if
>  all we are trying to do is stablize the 2.4x kernel series
>  and not add extra code or change around the drivers for
>  perticular hardware. The code is not used anymore so why
>  keep it in the 2.4x series. The code can stay in the 2.5x
>  series no problem because there we can change drivers
>  rewrite hardware protocalls and tthings like that. 


...because I maintain the driver, and want to keep that code around as a 
note to myself.

	Jeff



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