Re: [PATCH] 2.4.25: Get rid of obsolete LMC driver

From: Jeff Garzik
Date: Sat Feb 28 2004 - 11:59:39 EST


Daniel Egger wrote:
Hi Marcello,

This patch plus an additional
rm -r drivers/net/wan/lmc
gets rid of the obsolete LMC WAN driver and all references to it in the
Configure.in and Makefiles and MAINTAINERS.

When LMC was taken over by SBE their kernel version of the driver went
effectively unmaintained after Alan Cox turned down their LMC->SBE
rename patch. Today SBE recommends their own version of the driver only
which unfortunately needs different tools and also clashes with the LMC
driver when not compiled as module. This general recommendation from
their support effectively makes the in-kernel code obsete.

Their drivers can be retrieved from:
ftp://ftp.sbei.com/pub/OpenSource/Linux/sbe_driver/sbe_linux-4.0a.tgz

Alan Cox vetoed a rename patch, so you want to rip out the driver instead??? For an unreviewed out-of-tree driver?

Without a suitable replacement, I don't give a shit about what SBE recommends.

Veto.

Jeff



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