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From: Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@free.fr>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Craig Milo Rogers <rogers@isi.edu>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Termination of the Philips Webcam Driver (pwc)
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 19:37:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1093628254.15313.14.camel@gonzales> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0408271027060.14196@ppc970.osdl.org>

Le ven 27/08/2004 à 19:28, Linus Torvalds a écrit :

> We don't remove drivers because the maintainers go away. There's tons of 
> drivers that have no maintainer.
> 
> We remove drivers because the author _asks_ us to. If the person who wrote 
> the code doesn't want the code in the kernel, that's a pretty big deal.

What if someone steps up and want to maintain and extend this piece of
code ? Will you forbid him (as in "not in my tree") ?

	Xav


  reply	other threads:[~2004-08-27 17:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-26 23:32 Termination of the Philips Webcam Driver (pwc) Craig Milo Rogers
2004-08-26 23:47 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-08-27  0:03   ` Linus Torvalds
2004-08-27  8:43     ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-08-27  9:48       ` Craig Milo Rogers
2004-08-27 17:28       ` Linus Torvalds
2004-08-27 17:37         ` Xavier Bestel [this message]
2004-08-27 18:13           ` Linus Torvalds
2004-08-27 18:55             ` Craig Milo Rogers
2004-08-27 19:06               ` Linus Torvalds
2004-08-27 19:34                 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-08-27 21:42                 ` Nemosoft Unv.
2004-08-27 22:49                   ` Marek Habersack
2004-08-27 23:40                     ` Dmitry Torokhov
2004-08-28 17:42                       ` Pavel Machek
2004-08-27 23:04                   ` Craig Milo Rogers
2004-08-27 21:59                 ` non-i386 architectures (Re: Termination of the Philips Webcam Driver (pwc)) Daniel Egger
2004-08-27 19:06               ` Termination of the Philips Webcam Driver (pwc) Martin J. Bligh
2004-08-27 19:12             ` Alex Belits
2004-08-27 21:36             ` Anton Altaparmakov
2004-08-27 21:42               ` Anton Altaparmakov
2004-08-27 22:26                 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-08-27 21:52               ` Linus Torvalds
2004-08-27 22:22                 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-08-28  0:45                   ` Paul Jakma
2004-08-28  0:53                     ` Craig Milo Rogers
2004-08-28 10:29             ` Norbert van Nobelen
2004-08-29 14:37         ` Alan Cox
2004-08-28  9:26     ` chris
2004-08-29 14:41       ` Alan Cox
2004-08-29 14:36     ` Alan Cox
2004-08-29 18:09       ` Linus Torvalds
2004-08-29 18:57         ` Alan Cox
2004-08-29 19:40         ` Greg KH
2004-08-30  9:35         ` Craig Milo Rogers
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-08-27 10:14 Koos Vriezen
2004-08-27 11:03 ` Marcus Metzler
2004-08-28  2:16 lkml-mail
2004-08-28  5:30 ` Greg KH

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