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From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: david@lang.hm
Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
	Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] strip: move driver to staging
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:38:07 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091027203807.GA28756@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.0910271136530.11504@asgard.lang.hm>

On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 11:39:54AM -0700, david@lang.hm wrote:
> >> now it appears that you have to have 'enough' users (an amount undefined)
> >
> > That amount would be 1.  This driver does not have that, so it can be
> > removed.
> 
> while I definantly agree that this driver is unlikly to have many users, 
> unless it is known broken (which David Miller has stated that it is, but 
> had not been mentioned previously in this thread), how can you know that 
> the number of users has dropped below 1?

As the driver is known to be broken, I would think that the number of
users has dropped below 1 :)

And again, if someone for this driver shows up, it is _trivial_ to add
it back to the tree.

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2009-10-27 20:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-20  5:17 [PATCH 1/4] strip: move driver to staging John W. Linville
2009-10-20  5:17 ` [PATCH 2/4] arlan: " John W. Linville
     [not found]   ` <1256015830-12700-3-git-send-email-linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-20  5:17     ` [PATCH 4/4] netwave: " John W. Linville
2009-10-27 20:36       ` Staging: " Greg KH
2009-10-27 21:05         ` John W. Linville
2009-10-27 22:12           ` Greg KH
2009-10-20 16:06 ` [PATCH 1/4] strip: " Randy Dunlap
2009-10-26 16:46   ` John W. Linville
2009-10-26 17:02     ` Randy Dunlap
2009-10-26 18:48       ` Greg KH
2009-10-23 16:10 ` Pavel Machek
2009-10-23 16:54   ` Alan Cox
2009-10-26 16:55   ` John W. Linville
2009-10-26 17:18     ` david
2009-10-26 17:43       ` John W. Linville
2009-10-26 18:47       ` Greg KH
2009-10-27  4:17         ` david
2009-10-27  5:21           ` David Miller
2009-10-27  8:34           ` Stefan Richter
2009-10-27 14:08           ` Greg KH
2009-10-27 18:39             ` david
2009-10-27 20:38               ` Greg KH [this message]
2009-10-27 21:13               ` John W. Linville
2009-10-27 21:32               ` Alan Cox
2009-10-26 17:24     ` Pavel Machek
2009-10-26 17:29       ` Alan Cox
2009-10-26 17:34       ` John W. Linville
2009-10-26 18:48       ` Greg KH
2009-10-26 19:07         ` Joe Perches
2009-10-26 19:17           ` Greg KH
2009-10-26 19:20           ` John W. Linville
2009-10-26 19:36             ` Greg KH
2009-10-26 20:06             ` Joe Perches

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