All of lore.kernel.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: david@lang.hm
Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
	Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] strip: move driver to staging
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:38:07 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091027203807.GA28756@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.0910271136530.11504@asgard.lang.hm>

On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 11:39:54AM -0700, david@lang.hm wrote:
> >> now it appears that you have to have 'enough' users (an amount undefined)
> >
> > That amount would be 1.  This driver does not have that, so it can be
> > removed.
> 
> while I definantly agree that this driver is unlikly to have many users, 
> unless it is known broken (which David Miller has stated that it is, but 
> had not been mentioned previously in this thread), how can you know that 
> the number of users has dropped below 1?

As the driver is known to be broken, I would think that the number of
users has dropped below 1 :)

And again, if someone for this driver shows up, it is _trivial_ to add
it back to the tree.

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2009-10-27 20:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-20  5:17 [PATCH 1/4] strip: move driver to staging John W. Linville
2009-10-20  5:17 ` [PATCH 2/4] arlan: " John W. Linville
     [not found]   ` <1256015830-12700-3-git-send-email-linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-20  5:17     ` [PATCH 4/4] netwave: " John W. Linville
2009-10-27 20:36       ` Staging: " Greg KH
2009-10-27 21:05         ` John W. Linville
2009-10-27 22:12           ` Greg KH
2009-10-20 16:06 ` [PATCH 1/4] strip: " Randy Dunlap
2009-10-26 16:46   ` John W. Linville
2009-10-26 17:02     ` Randy Dunlap
2009-10-26 18:48       ` Greg KH
2009-10-23 16:10 ` Pavel Machek
2009-10-23 16:54   ` Alan Cox
2009-10-26 16:55   ` John W. Linville
2009-10-26 17:18     ` david
2009-10-26 17:43       ` John W. Linville
2009-10-26 18:47       ` Greg KH
2009-10-27  4:17         ` david
2009-10-27  5:21           ` David Miller
2009-10-27  8:34           ` Stefan Richter
2009-10-27 14:08           ` Greg KH
2009-10-27 18:39             ` david
2009-10-27 20:38               ` Greg KH [this message]
2009-10-27 21:13               ` John W. Linville
2009-10-27 21:32               ` Alan Cox
2009-10-26 17:24     ` Pavel Machek
2009-10-26 17:29       ` Alan Cox
2009-10-26 17:34       ` John W. Linville
2009-10-26 18:48       ` Greg KH
2009-10-26 19:07         ` Joe Perches
2009-10-26 19:17           ` Greg KH
2009-10-26 19:20           ` John W. Linville
2009-10-26 19:36             ` Greg KH
2009-10-26 20:06             ` Joe Perches

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20091027203807.GA28756@suse.de \
    --to=gregkh@suse.de \
    --cc=david@lang.hm \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=linville@tuxdriver.com \
    --cc=pavel@ucw.cz \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body. 
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.