From: "Russell, Nathaniel" <reddog83@chartermi.net>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] trivial patch for 2.4.20-pre1 8139too.c driver (fwd)
Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2002 15:28:56 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <web-40244083@back3.chartermi.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3D500AF1.9050901@mandrakesoft.com>
O K Then
Russell, Nathaniel wrote:
>My i ask what the sense is to not remove the dead code if
> all we are trying to do is stablize the 2.4x kernel
series
> and not add extra code or change around the drivers for
> perticular hardware. The code is not used anymore so why
> keep it in the 2.4x series. The code can stay in the 2.5x
> series no problem because there we can change drivers
> rewrite hardware protocalls and tthings like that.
...because I maintain the driver, and want to keep that
code around as a note to myself.
Jeff
prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-08-06 19:33 UTC|newest]
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2002-08-06 17:41 ` [PATCH] trivial patch for 2.4.20-pre1 8139too.c driver (fwd) Russell, Nathaniel
2002-08-06 17:44 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-08-06 19:28 ` Russell, Nathaniel [this message]
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