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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.