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From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 01:54:47PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Tuesday 31 August 2010, Rogier Wolff wrote:
> > The question is whether I want the drivers I wrote to stay or to
> > go away?
> 
> More or less, yes.
>  
> > I was paid years ago to make Linux support the Specialix cards. It
> > started with one card from their line of "solutions", but the others
> > followed.
> 
> The most important question is whether you think that there are people
> somewhere in the world that are using the device drivers on machines
> with recent kernels.
> 
> If you still get bug reports for the drivers, that would be a clear
> indication to make them stay, while if you haven't heard from a user
> during the last five years, it's probably obsolete enough that it
> can be removed (after a few kernels of grace period in drivers/staging).

And it is always possible to revert a removal at a later time and fix up
a driver if someone does show up in a few years asking where the driver
went.

thanks,

greg k-h