From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268048AbUHFCHT (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Aug 2004 22:07:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265872AbUHFCHS (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Aug 2004 22:07:18 -0400 Received: from hera.kernel.org ([63.209.29.2]:56008 "EHLO hera.kernel.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268048AbUHFCHB (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Aug 2004 22:07:01 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: hpa@zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin) Subject: Re: Remove of the UMSDOS Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 02:05:51 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Transmeta Corporation, Santa Clara CA Message-ID: References: <4112218B.2030902@web.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Trace: terminus.zytor.com 1091757951 30046 127.0.0.1 (6 Aug 2004 02:05:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@terminus.zytor.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 02:05:51 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Followup to: <4112218B.2030902@web.de> By author: Florian Sievers In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > In the Linux Magazin 09/04(a german linux magazine) i found a news > artikel about removing the UMSDOS part of the kernel. I don't use this > module but if you remove parts of the kernel that have been so usefull > in the past and you won't remove it because of the needing in the past > than make a new directory in the kernel package that is named r.i.p. > oder rip. And there you can make txt files which discribes the removed > parts and a tribute to the authors of these parts. > > I hope this was the right place to post this and it was no joke from me. > It was a seriously suggestion > Pretty pointless, though. Old versions of the kernel are archived indefinitely on kernel.org anyway. -hpa