From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.com>
Cc: linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
Philipp Hortmann <philipp.g.hortmann@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: proposal to delete the skeleton driver
Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2021 11:24:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Ya82XJcTPD2Dj605@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <df5bb0a6-e5f5-e062-5c02-e1de612058e2@suse.com>
On Tue, Dec 07, 2021 at 11:16:37AM +0100, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> Hi,
>
> it seems to me that the method of maintaining an example driver
> does not work because it will inevitably be
>
> * untested
>
> * out of date
>
> Thus our documentation would be improved by replacing its examples
> with code from drivers for real hardware. Such code wouldn't be pretty
> or written for text books, but it would be tested.
> I could do it this week in a first proposal. But I don't want to start
> if somebody feels that the skeleton driver absolutely has to stay.
As the author of the skeleton driver, I have no objections to removing
it as it is showing its age and all of the problems that you mention
here are real.
So sure, delete away!
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-12-07 10:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-12-07 10:16 proposal to delete the skeleton driver Oliver Neukum
2021-12-07 10:24 ` Greg KH [this message]
2021-12-07 22:43 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2021-12-08 11:13 ` Oliver Neukum
2021-12-11 16:28 ` Philipp Hortmann
2021-12-08 18:13 ` Philipp Hortmann
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