From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 31 Jul 2001 12:41:02 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 31 Jul 2001 12:40:55 -0400 Received: from smarty.smart.net ([207.176.80.102]:10771 "EHLO smarty.smart.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 31 Jul 2001 12:40:38 -0400 From: Rick Hohensee Message-Id: <200107311658.MAA03706@smarty.smart.net> Subject: Re: LANCE ethernet chip - ~24 drivers To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 12:58:10 -0400 (EDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL3] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-kernel-outgoing Jan-Benedict Glaw >That are *many* drivers for at least *one* chip. For now, I'm >working to get a serial keyboard running. However - having >more than 20 drivers for one kind of device sucks a lot. So One has to wonder. I was looking at 1.2.13 and there is mention of splitting a driver, I forget which one, because there are two bits with reversed sense in later versions of a card. This raises a question about open source. How do you aknowledge code removal? Given a system at some level of existing functionality, removing code is one of the best things you can do for it, but it doesn't get your name anywhere that sticks. Maybe Linux needs a linux/NO_MAINTENANCE . Rick Hohensee www.clienux.com