Re: [2.6 patch] no longer mark MTD_OBSOLETE_CHIPS as BROKEN and remove broken MTD_OBSOLETE_CHIPS drivers

Andrew Morton
2006-01-08T01:49:04Z

David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> wrote:
>
> > > 2. What was the reason for marking them obsolete?
> >
> > The changelog says:
> > - David Woodhouse: large MTD and JFFS[2] update
>
> I didn't ask who; I knew that. I asked you _why_. Admittedly, I happen
> to know that too - but I want to know if _you_ know it.
>
> Since you've taken it upon yourself to decide the timescale of the
> removal, surely it's reasonable to expect that you do actually know what
> you're removing and why it's obsolescent?
>

Hey, Adrian isn't an MTD developer - give him a break.

What he's doing here is to poke other maintainers into getting the tree
cleaned up. It's a useful thing to do.

If you, an MTD maintainer, can tell him what we _should_ be doing, I'm sure
Adrian would help.