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Date:   Tue, 7 Dec 2021 11:24:28 +0100
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To:     Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.com>
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        Philipp Hortmann <philipp.g.hortmann@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: proposal to delete the skeleton driver
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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 * out of date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