From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" Subject: Re: [PATCH] wavelan.4: Remove manpage for no longer available driver Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2013 10:04:57 +0200 Message-ID: <52283B29.4030102@gmail.com> References: <1377929583-5438-1-git-send-email-eliedebrauwer@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-man-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Elie De Brauwer Cc: Michael Kerrisk-manpages , linux-man List-Id: linux-man@vger.kernel.org On 04.09.2013 21:13, Elie De Brauwer wrote: > On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 2:38 PM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) > wrote: >> Hello Elie, >> >> On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 8:13 AM, Elie De Brauwer >> 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html