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Date:   Wed, 28 Apr 2021 15:23:44 +0300
From:   Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
To:     Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>
Cc:     Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
        Anupama K Patil <anupamakpatil123@gmail.com>,
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        skhan@linuxfoundation.org, B K Karthik <bkkarthik@pesu.pes.edu>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: mark isapnp as obsolete
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On Wed, Apr 28, 2021 at 02:17:00PM +0200, Jaroslav Kysela wrote:
> Dne 28. 04. 21 v 13:11 Greg KH napsal(a):
> > On Wed, Apr 28, 2021 at 04:35:36PM +0530, Anupama K Patil wrote:
> >> isapnp code is very old and according to this link
> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legacy_Plug_and_Play#Specifications
> >> from Wikipedia, even Windows Vista disabled ISA PnP by default.
> >>
> >> This change is in follow up to
> >> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210422180322.7wlyg63kv3n2k6id@ubuntu/T/#u
> >> and https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210424194301.jmsqpycvsm7izbk3@ubuntu/T/#u
> >>
> >> Suggested-by: B K Karthik <bkkarthik@pesu.pes.edu>
> >> Signed-off-by: Anupama K Patil <anupamakpatil123@gmail.com>
> > 
> > Has the maintainer said this is unsupported?
> 
> I've no idea, if there're any users at the time, but there are many drivers
> which depend on this code.

IMHO, this is exactly "Odd fixes" - code not really dead, but not really
alive too.

Thanks

> 
> I'll try to reply to patch threads.
> 
> 						Jaroslav
> 
> -- 
> Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>
> Linux Sound Maintainer; ALSA Project; Red Hat, Inc.