Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757677Ab2B2Tce (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Feb 2012 14:32:34 -0500 Received: from perches-mx.perches.com ([206.117.179.246]:50475 "EHLO labridge.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754837Ab2B2Tcc (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Feb 2012 14:32:32 -0500 Message-ID: <1330543951.21491.15.camel@joe2Laptop> Subject: Re: "whitespace coding style cleanup" broke coding style From: Joe Perches To: Armin Schindler Cc: Tilman Schmidt , Armin Schindler , Karsten Keil , Jiri Slaby , LKML , Hansjoerg Lipp , gigaset307x-common@lists.sourceforge.net, Jiri Slaby , David Miller Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 11:32:31 -0800 In-Reply-To: <4F4DE175.30002@melware.de> References: <4F4B45F6.4090706@suse.cz> <1330361549.9942.7.camel@joe2Laptop> <4F4D15E1.3090306@imap.cc> <1330466751.21481.18.camel@joe2Laptop> <4F4D5E84.8090404@imap.cc> <1330471687.31737.19.camel@joe2Laptop> <4F4DE175.30002@melware.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.2.2- Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1957 Lines: 58 On Wed, 2012-02-29 at 09:27 +0100, Armin Schindler wrote: > On 02/29/2012 12:28 AM, Joe Perches wrote: > > One of those, Armin Schindler, (cc'd) hasn't > > signed a single commit in git history. > True, my last work here was a long time ago. > I used to maintain the eicon driver, but this driver > is not just old, it is simply outdated for years and > I doubt someone will ever use it in newer kernels. > It just creates work here. You could remove yourself from MAINTAINERS if you want. MAINTAINERS | 3 +-- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS index 5d3ae86..d40a974 100644 --- a/MAINTAINERS +++ b/MAINTAINERS @@ -3682,10 +3682,9 @@ F: include/linux/isdn.h F: include/linux/isdn/ ISDN SUBSYSTEM (Eicon active card driver) -M: Armin Schindler L: isdn4linux@listserv.isdn4linux.de (subscribers-only) W: http://www.melware.de -S: Maintained +S: Orphan F: drivers/isdn/hardware/eicon/ IT87 HARDWARE MONITORING DRIVER > Some time ago I asked (I don't remember who) why > don't we remove that old driver from the kernel. > It wasn't done because there is no follow up for the > kernel. The new drivers out there are maintained, > but will never be part of the kernel (coding style, etc.). > I guess the idea was not to remove a driver from the kernel > when there is no alternative (in kernel). > Maybe I should bring this up again and ask for a removal of the > current eicon driver in kernel... Your choice. It could be moved to staging as a prelude to removing it after a few releases. I did do a rather large drive-by whitespace cleanup of eicon. It still compiles. I've no idea if it still works though. cheers, Joe -- 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/