On Sun, 2006-11-19 at 17:24 +0200, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: > On Sun, Nov 19, 2006 at 03:06:00PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > unmaintained != not used > > > > As an example, some people might be unhappy if the floppy driver that is > > unmaintained for ages and not in a good state was removed. > > I understand. However, if it was slated to be removed, said people > might be inclined to start maintaining it. We have a bar for inclusion > of new code into the tree - why shouldn't a quality bar also be > applied to old code in the tree?
this bypasses the convenient fact that there are 2 types of unmaintained: 1) Drivers that barely, if at all, limp along and nobody has hw for 2) Drivers that no one person is the declared maintainer, but which do get fixed when they break by "someone" floppy.c is of the later kind; the hardware is widespread enough to make that feasible I suppose; while the former kind are mostly ISA slot cards that virtually nobody has (or only people who can't or don't want to care about the linux kernel driver; a bunch of serial expander drivers and a whole lot of the ISDN drivers falls in this category) marking the category 1) drivers that limp along as "don't warn on deprecated" is sort of fair; they're not far enough down deathrow yet that they can be removed entirely, yet they also shouldn't clutter up the build logs and they shouldn't prevent us from deprecating APIs that are truely broken (*_sleep_on(), cli() etc) in 2.6 kernels... -- if you want to mail me at work (you don't), use arjan (at) linux.intel.com Test the interaction between Linux and your BIOS via http://www.linuxfirmwarekit.org - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
