Re: [PATCH] wavelan.4: Remove manpage for no longer available driver

["Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

On 04.09.2013 21:13, Elie De Brauwer wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 2:38 PM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
> <mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> Hello Elie,
>>
>> On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 8:13 AM, Elie De Brauwer
>> <eliedebrauwer-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>>> Hello Michael, list,
>>>
>>> The current release of the manpages contains wavelan(4), but support for
>>> this module/driver is gone since several years. Starting from 2.6.32
>>> (2009 )the driver was put in a staging mode ready for deprecation:
>>>
>>> The announcement e-mail is here: http://lwn.net/Articles/367876/
>>> Then it lived in staging for two more releases with the following cry
>>> for help: http://lxr.linux.no/linux+v2.6.34.14/drivers/staging/wavelan/TODO
>>> and disappeared since 2.6.35 and then all other traces (documentation, etc)
>>> were also removed.
>>>
>>> Hence I think it's pointless to continue dragging this information around,
>>> if the driver doesn't have much use to people anymore, I doubt the manpage
>>> has.
>>
>> I'm reluctant to discard the page outright (occasionally, people do
>> want to see even obsolete information), so I've simply added a note to
>> the top of the page to say that the driver was removed in 2.6.35.
> 
> No problem, I only saw after my patch that has also happened for the
> sk98lin(4) page.

Do you have further details for the sk98lin driver? That page then also needs
a similar note.

> My initial reflex would be that anybody interested in older stuff
> already has a habit
> with working with version control history.

As said, I prefer to hold onto the pages, at least for a while.

Cheers,

Michael
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