Re: [RFC: 2.6 patch] remove the broken VIDEO_PLANB driver

[Mich Lanners <mlan@cpu.lu>]

Hi Adrian, hi Ben,

On   5 Jan, this message from Benjamin Herrenschmidt echoed through
cyberspace:
> On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 19:53 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
>> The VIDEO_PLANB driver:
>> - has been marked as BROKEN for more than two years and
>> - is still marked as BROKEN.
>> 
>> Drivers that had been marked as BROKEN for such a long time seem to
>> be unlikely to be revived in the forseeable future.

I was waiting for this one :-) I have to admit I don't have the time to
work on this anymore, so either Ben can fix something, or I will sadly
add my s-o-b.

>> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
> 
> I suppose I could give it a go as I do have a machine with that
> hardware rusting somewhere... Don't remove it right away, I'll have a
> look.

If you need explanations about the code or the hardware, don't hesitate
to ask. Not sure what I still remember, but I still have my old paper
notes.

Cheers

Michel

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