Re: [PATCH] remove old broken Cobalt LCD driver

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Wed Jul 16 2008 - 20:18:40 EST


On Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:16:40 -0700
Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:31:32 +0900
> Yoichi Yuasa <yoichi_yuasa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Remove old broken Cobalt LCD driver.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Yoichi Yuasa <yoichi_yuasa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Why do we remove it, rather than unbreaking it?
>
> Did some other driver replace it? Does nobody need the driver any
> more?

doh. That's what I get for processing patches in reverse-time-order.

So there's no point in retaining both the old driver and the new one
for some period of time?

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