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From: Jim Nelson <james4765@verizon.net>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] deprecate some drivers
Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 16:36:53 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <41AF8AF5.6060307@verizon.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41AECCD9.40808@pobox.com>

Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 
> I'm looking to eliminate some horribly broken/dup drivers.  Since 2.6 is 
> an ongoing matter, I want a 'flashing-red warning sign' that drivers 
> will soon be disappearing, rather than just killing the driver and 
> listening for the screams.
> 
> IPhase driver is broken+abandoned, and xirtulip is 
> broken+duplicate+abandoned, and are two prime candidates for my prefence 
> of handling this matter:  CONFIG_DEPRECATED.
> 

Please add digiboard to your list - duplicate+abandoned.

      reply	other threads:[~2004-12-02 21:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-12-02  8:05 [PATCH/RFC] deprecate some drivers Jeff Garzik
2004-12-02 21:36 ` Jim Nelson [this message]

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