From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: martinez.javier@gmail.com (Javier Martinez Canillas) Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 16:30:15 +0200 Subject: academia contribution to the kernel In-Reply-To: <20110531125832.GC7643@kroah.com> References: <866102144-1306829349-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-485966212-@b15.c2.bise3.blackberry> <20110531125832.GC7643@kroah.com> Message-ID: To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org List-Id: kernelnewbies.lists.kernelnewbies.org On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 2:58 PM, Greg KH wrote: > On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 09:44:25PM +1200, Ronnie Collinson wrote: >> Quite generic, but over the last N months or year what feature or some form of >> milestone has excited and/or pleased you the most, excluding 2.3 numbering. >> Could be intersting. > > Ah, yes, you were not the first one to think of this one, it's on my > list already :) > I have another question. Maybe a silly one but here it goes: As far as I know linux staging is not only a mean to add code that still is not in a mergeable form but also to deprecate old code. This also applies to old subsystem like IBM MCA and ISA? Are these old buses and ancient architectures being deprecated in the next 3.x releases? -- Javier Mart?nez Canillas (+34) 682 39 81 69 PhD Student in High Performance Computing Computer Architecture and Operating System Department (CAOS) Universitat Aut?noma de Barcelona Barcelona, Spain