Re: Linux 2.4 Status / TODO page (Updated as of 2.4.0-test10)

Bill Wendling
2000-11-03T22:04:09Z

Also sprach kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru:
} > de4x5 is probably also buggy in regard to this.
}
} de4x5 is hopeless. I added nice comment in softnet to it.
} Unfortunately it was lost. 8)
}
} Andi, neither you nor me nor Alan nor anyone are able to audit
} all this unnevessarily overcomplicated code. It was buggy, is buggy
} and will be buggy. It is inavoidable, as soon as you have hundreds
} of drivers.
}
If they are buggy and unsupported, why aren't they being expunged from
the main source tree and placed into a ``contrib'' directory or something
for people who may want those drivers?

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