Re: time for some drivers to be removed?

Brian Jackson
2003-07-24T19:09:39Z

On Thursday 24 July 2003 09:43 am, John Bradford wrote:
<snip>
>
> Some people might be interested in it. Maybe somebody would like to
> fix it, but can't buy the physical hardware for any price. Maybe
> everybody who has the hardware can't fix it because other kernel bugs
> prevent them from using the latest kernels on their machines. Why
> remove it when it's doing no harm whatsoever?

I can think of one reason:
$ ls -lhGrS /usr/portage/distfiles/linux-2.*

-rw-r--r-- 1 23M Apr 10 2002
/usr/portage/distfiles/linux-2.4.18.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 25M Aug 19 2002
/usr/portage/distfiles/linux-2.4.19.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 26M Feb 22 21:26
/usr/portage/distfiles/linux-2.4.20.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 27M Jun 13 09:52
/usr/portage/distfiles/linux-2.4.21.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 30M Feb 10 13:05
/usr/portage/distfiles/linux-2.5.60.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 30M Feb 24 13:30
/usr/portage/distfiles/linux-2.5.63.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 30M Mar 4 21:47
/usr/portage/distfiles/linux-2.5.64.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 30M Mar 17 16:29
/usr/portage/distfiles/linux-2.5.65.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 30M Apr 19 22:02
/usr/portage/distfiles/linux-2.5.68.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 30M Mar 24 17:23
/usr/portage/distfiles/linux-2.5.66.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 30M Apr 11 12:16
/usr/portage/distfiles/linux-2.5.67.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 32M Jul 10 15:21
/usr/portage/distfiles/linux-2.5.75.tar.bz2

2.6 doesn't seem to be swelling that fast, but 2.4 is

>
> John.

--Brian Jackson

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