On Sun, 2004-01-18 at 16:04, Oliver Neukum wrote: > > > You are breaking working, legal systems for no good reason. > > > > By saying, "Don't use that driver anymore. The author says it should be > > removed. Use this other driver instead." we should be just fine. > > That we have CONFIG_OBSOLETE for. > > > > The hotplug system is _not_ mandatory. Hotplug will cure it is not an > > > answer. > > > > Do you know of any distro that is shipping USB support without using the > > hotplug system? > > Distributions are not the problem. They'll cope. Nevertheless nobody needs > to install them. Compiling kernels without it or not installing it are > both legal. > > Regards > Oliver We can mark it obsolete if that would be a preferred path. I tend to get quite a few bug reports on the ax8817x.c driver and when I steer them towards the usbnet driver, the bugs go away. David is right that the most important thing is in the Config.in (oops, my patch left that part out) and making sure the end user can tell that it's in usbnet. With 2.6, that isn't a problem as the minidrivers are configurable. With 2.4, they aren't. They are all just enabled in the driver source. -- David T Hollis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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