Re: time for some drivers to be removed?

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Thu Jul 24 2003 - 09:58:58 EST


On Iau, 2003-07-24 at 13:20, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> more to the point, there are drivers that seem to be perpetually
> broken. as an example, the riscom8 driver has been borked for as
> long as i can remember. at some point, shouldn't something like
> this either be fixed or just removed? what's the point of
> perpetually bundling a driver that doesn't even compile?

So someone coming from 2.4 can fix it when they need it. You can tag
such things with && OBSOLETE, we did that in 2.4.

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