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From: "roland" <devzero@web.de>
To: "Oliver Neukum" <oneukum@suse.de>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, <bunk@stusta.de>
Subject: Re: [RFC] - Schedule mcdx for removal ? was:  warning: #warning You have not edited mcdx.h
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 23:59:40 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <06e401c76d9e$f0920430$eeeea8c0@aldipc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200703221035.19832.oneukum@suse.de>

why not?

why should unused code be maintained to death ?

if there are discussions about removing features people are still using, i 
think it should be legitimate to discuss about removing drivers nobody needs 
anymore....

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Oliver Neukum" <oneukum@suse.de>
To: "roland" <devzero@web.de>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>; <bunk@stusta.de>
Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2007 10:35 AM
Subject: Re: [RFC] - Schedule mcdx for removal ? was: warning: #warning You 
have not edited mcdx.h


Am Donnerstag, 22. März 2007 10:14 schrieb roland:
> i wonder if there still exist any of those devices in functional state in
> this world, at least not attached to some system being able to boot
> 2.6.21+ - so, maybe mcdx driver is something for
> Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt , being removed in 2.6.25 or so
> after being announced for some time (i.e. driver telling "i will be gone
> soon, go spend those $15 to get a new drive") ?

Why? For the sake of sheer removal?

Regards
Oliver
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  reply	other threads:[~2007-03-23 22:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-22  9:14 roland
2007-03-22  9:35 ` Oliver Neukum
2007-03-23 22:59   ` roland [this message]
2007-03-23 23:09     ` Adrian Bunk

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