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Message-ID: <9a8748490704151450i251b8b1av8439bc275e982866@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 23:50:03 +0200 From: "Jesper Juhl" <jesper.juhl@...il.com> To: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...dspring.com> Cc: "Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, "Adrian Bunk" <bunk@...sta.de> Subject: Re: so what *is* obsolete and removable? On 15/04/07, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@...dspring.com> wrote: > > in a recent posting, ian anderson suggested that, before kernel > features are removed, they should spend a reasonable amount of time in > the feature removal file to give everyone fair warning. if that's the > case, then there are a *bunch* of things that should perhaps be added > to that file real soon now just to start the clock ticking. > [snip] > ./sound/oss/Kconfig: bool "Obsolete OSS drivers" > ./sound/oss/Kconfig: This option enables support for obsolete OSS drivers that > > clearly, that was a fairly brainless search, but it still reveals a > pile of stuff that's "obsolete" (whatever that means in the context in > which it's used). so what's really obsolete? > IIRC Adrian Bunk is handling the removal of obsolete OSS drivers and doing a nice job at it. Dunno about the rest of the stuff. -- Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@...il.com> Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please http://www.expita.com/nomime.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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