From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>,
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>,
Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>, Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
Dominik Brodowski <linux@brodo.de>, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>,
Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>,
Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Subject: Re: Feature Removals for 2.6.25
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 19:26:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080214182653.GA6456@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47B4876B.6020100@linux.intel.com>
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 10:24:43AM -0800, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> Bill Davidsen wrote:
> >Note that because the hardware is old, it's highly likely that most of
> >it will be retired before that sk98lin driver needs a change. I can't
> >see anyone using sk98lin on a new system, so it would be less
> >contentious to let the hardware (or users) die of natural causes if you
> >can.
> >
>
> the problem is that the new one DOES NOT GET FIXED.
> THAT is a huge problem; it means we have a buggy driver...
It's also utterly missing the point. The skge driver supports all the
hardware that sk98lin supports. If it doesn't work bug Stephen who's
a very responsive maintainer.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-14 18:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-01 1:38 Feature Removals for 2.6.25 Harvey Harrison
2008-02-01 4:53 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-02-01 5:18 ` Harvey Harrison
2008-02-01 6:33 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-02-01 7:04 ` Harvey Harrison
2008-02-01 5:02 ` Feature Removals for 2.6.25 (USB driver api) Greg KH
2008-02-01 7:08 ` Feature Removals for 2.6.25 Stephen Hemminger
2008-02-02 1:29 ` Nick Piggin
2008-02-03 10:44 ` Feature Removals for 2.6.25 - old NCR53C9x driver Boaz Harrosh
2008-02-14 2:49 ` Feature Removals for 2.6.25 Bill Davidsen
2008-02-14 2:55 ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-02-14 18:16 ` Bill Davidsen
2008-02-14 18:24 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-02-14 18:26 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2008-02-14 23:20 ` David Newall
2008-02-15 3:27 ` Rene Herman
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