From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: Simon Evans <spse@secret.org.uk>,
linux-pcmcia@lists.infradead.org, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC: 2.6 patch] remove the broken MTD_PCMCIA driver
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 22:16:27 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1164752187.14595.20.camel@pmac.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061118214056.GB31879@stusta.de>
On Sat, 2006-11-18 at 22:40 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> The MTD_PCMCIA driver has:
> - already been marked as BROKEN in 2.6.0 three years ago 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.
Actually, there's hardware currently on its way to me, and I plan to fix
this driver fairly soon.
> But if anyone wants to ever revive this driver, the code is still
> present in the older kernel releases.
I'm unconvinced by that argument in the general case. People don't go
looking back through git history, do they? Drivers such as this don't
really do any harm as they are, and they're _much_ easier to find when
someone does want to fix them up.
--
dwmw2
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-28 22:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-18 21:40 [RFC: 2.6 patch] remove the broken MTD_PCMCIA driver Adrian Bunk
2006-11-28 22:16 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2006-11-30 7:09 ` Adrian Bunk
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2006-11-25 19:15 Adrian Bunk
2006-11-26 9:40 ` Artem Bityutskiy
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