Re: Termination of the Philips Webcam Driver (pwc)

Linus Torvalds
2004-08-27T17:28:28Z

On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>
> Umm, just because he's piised off we shouldn't removed support for hardware.
> it's not like the driver suddenly stops from working because it's unmaintained.

You didn't read what I wrote.

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.

Linus