From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754053AbXDQNNO (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Apr 2007 09:13:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754072AbXDQNNO (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Apr 2007 09:13:14 -0400 Received: from posthamster.phnxsoft.com ([195.227.45.4]:4664 "EHLO posthamster.phnxsoft.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754053AbXDQNNM (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Apr 2007 09:13:12 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 1179 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Tue, 17 Apr 2007 09:13:12 EDT Message-ID: <4624C320.3050206@imap.cc> Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 14:52:48 +0200 From: Tilman Schmidt User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-AT; rv:1.8.0.9) Gecko/20061211 SeaMonkey/1.0.7 Mnenhy/0.7.4.666 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Randy Dunlap CC: "Robert P. J. Day" , i4ldeveloper@listserv.isdn4linux.de, Karsten Keil , LKML Subject: Re: so what *is* obsolete and removable? References: <4623FB0E.4080602@imap.cc> <20070416161337.d59f2ea3.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> In-Reply-To: <20070416161337.d59f2ea3.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.2.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigB6A0C849C4890BC4CF3CB99F" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigB6A0C849C4890BC4CF3CB99F Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 16:13:37 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: > On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 00:39:10 +0200 Tilman Schmidt wrote: >=20 >> We *did* reach a consensus that isdn4linux is not obsolete in the >> accepted sense of the word, because there is no replacement for it >> so far. >>=20 >> OTOH I have since submitted (twice, in fact) a patch that would remove= >> the "(obsolete)" label from the Kconfig entry, but somehow nothing >> ever became of it. My submissions just linger in LKML, uncommented and= >> unmerged. >=20 > Did you submit the patch to Andrew Morton? No. The recipients I chose were Karsten Keil as the subsystem maintainer, i4ldeveloper as the subsystem specific list, and LKML. > Is the patch in the -mm patchset? No. Should it be? It's not as if there was anything to test. It's purely a textual change in Kconfig messages. > Did Karsten ack the patch? No. He hasn't replied at all. > If the patch is in -mm and it's not critical (like this subject), > then it probably won't be merged until after 2.6.21 is released... Fine by me, as long as it does get merged eventually so I can stop watching for attempts to remove isdn4linux as obsolete. --=20 Tilman Schmidt E-Mail: tilman@imap.cc Bonn, Germany Diese Nachricht besteht zu 100% aus wiederverwerteten Bits. Unge=F6ffnet mindestens haltbar bis: (siehe R=FCckseite) --------------enigB6A0C849C4890BC4CF3CB99F Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.4 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGJMMgMdB4Whm86/kRAhKMAJ9Vt2Z+TYZi3PGmVPzpKuvU102wFACeMnTF 8Zkz2h3ZLr4lJt6Ov1WQ+FY= =PsfS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigB6A0C849C4890BC4CF3CB99F--