From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Rogier Wolff <R.E.Wolff@bitwizard.nl>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>,
Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>,
"Michael H. Warfield" <mhw@wittsend.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC 0/5] tty: move stuff around
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 13:54:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201008311354.47275.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100831104205.GA2301@bitwizard.nl>
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).
Arnd
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-31 11:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-29 21:06 [RFC 0/5] tty: move stuff around Arnd Bergmann
2010-08-29 21:06 ` [PATCH 1/5] tty: move tty layer code to drivers/tty Arnd Bergmann
2010-08-29 21:06 ` [PATCH 2/5] tty/vt: move files to drivers/tty/vt/ Arnd Bergmann
2010-08-29 21:06 ` [PATCH 3/5] tty/hvc: move files to drivers/tty/hvc Arnd Bergmann
2010-08-29 21:06 ` [PATCH 4/5] tty/hw: move hardware drivers to drivers/tty/hw Arnd Bergmann
2010-08-29 21:51 ` Mike Frysinger
2010-08-30 8:55 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-08-30 10:54 ` Alan Cox
2010-08-30 12:28 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-08-30 14:56 ` Mike Frysinger
2010-08-30 15:25 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-08-30 15:26 ` Mike Frysinger
2010-08-29 21:06 ` [PATCH 5/5] tty: rearrange Kconfig structure Arnd Bergmann
2010-08-29 23:18 ` [RFC 0/5] tty: move stuff around Alan Cox
2010-08-30 11:37 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-08-30 11:55 ` Jiri Slaby
2010-08-30 12:15 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-08-30 13:00 ` Alan Cox
2010-08-30 21:04 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-08-30 18:47 ` Greg KH
2010-08-30 21:33 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-08-30 21:38 ` Jiri Slaby
2010-08-30 22:28 ` Alan Cox
2010-08-31 6:08 ` Jiri Slaby
2010-08-31 9:33 ` Alan Cox
2010-08-31 9:19 ` Jiri Slaby
2010-08-31 9:19 ` [PATCH 1/1] MAINTAINERS: remove isicom Jiri Slaby
2010-08-31 15:03 ` Joe Perches
2010-08-31 15:08 ` [PATCH 1/1] MAINTAINERS: orphan isicom Jiri Slaby
2010-08-31 9:26 ` [RFC 0/5] tty: move stuff around Arnd Bergmann
2010-08-31 10:42 ` Rogier Wolff
2010-08-31 11:23 ` Alan Cox
2010-08-31 11:54 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2010-08-31 13:32 ` Greg KH
2010-09-02 15:16 ` Michael H. Warfield
2010-09-03 12:13 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-09-03 12:58 ` Gene Heskett
2010-09-03 13:34 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-08-31 15:53 ` Mike Frysinger
2010-09-02 20:12 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2010-09-03 12:01 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-08-31 4:11 ` Greg KH
2010-09-03 15:29 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-09-03 16:55 ` Greg KH
2010-09-03 17:42 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-09-03 22:46 ` Greg KH
2010-09-03 20:08 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2010-09-03 20:32 ` Alan Cox
2010-09-03 20:23 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2010-09-21 23:07 ` Greg KH
2010-09-21 23:08 ` [PATCH 1/2] TTY: create /tty and move the tty core files there Greg KH
2010-09-21 23:08 ` [PATCH 2/2] TTY: create tty/vt and move the vt code there Greg KH
2010-09-22 9:10 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-09-22 9:13 ` [PATCH 1/2] TTY: create /tty and move the tty core files there Arnd Bergmann
2011-02-23 1:12 ` [RFC 0/5] tty: move stuff around Greg KH
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