Re: [RFC 0/5] tty: move stuff around

Greg KH
2010-08-31T13:32:39Z

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