From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261877AbUB1Qyx (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Feb 2004 11:54:53 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261879AbUB1Qyx (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Feb 2004 11:54:53 -0500 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:37276 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261877AbUB1Qyw (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Feb 2004 11:54:52 -0500 Message-ID: <4040C7CF.4020108@pobox.com> Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 11:54:39 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030703 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: de@axiros.com CC: Marcelo Tosatti , Linux Kernel Mailinglist Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.4.25: Get rid of obsolete LMC driver References: <1077972033.24149.399.camel@sonja> In-Reply-To: <1077972033.24149.399.camel@sonja> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Daniel Egger wrote: > Hi Marcello, > > This patch plus an additional > rm -r drivers/net/wan/lmc > gets rid of the obsolete LMC WAN driver and all references to it in the > Configure.in and Makefiles and MAINTAINERS. > > When LMC was taken over by SBE their kernel version of the driver went > effectively unmaintained after Alan Cox turned down their LMC->SBE > rename patch. Today SBE recommends their own version of the driver only > which unfortunately needs different tools and also clashes with the LMC > driver when not compiled as module. This general recommendation from > their support effectively makes the in-kernel code obsete. > > Their drivers can be retrieved from: > ftp://ftp.sbei.com/pub/OpenSource/Linux/sbe_driver/sbe_linux-4.0a.tgz Alan Cox vetoed a rename patch, so you want to rip out the driver instead??? For an unreviewed out-of-tree driver? Without a suitable replacement, I don't give a shit about what SBE recommends. Veto. Jeff