Re: time for some drivers to be removed?

Alan Cox
2003-07-28T01:07:29Z

On Sul, 2003-07-27 at 19:45, David D. Hagood wrote:
> I would disagree - OBSOLETE to me means just that - that module is
> obsolete. Minix FS, OSS (as opposed to ALSA), and the old non-SCSI,
> non-IDE HD interfaces would be OBSOLETE.
>
> Besides, I have seen cases where Firewire modules wouldn't build for
> some period of time - would you deem them OBSOLETE?

The code in question is obsolete if it wont build because its out of date
with respect to the core. The point I was trying to make is we have a
definition (have had since 2.2) and actively use it. So there is nothing
to invent here