linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] remove old broken Cobalt LCD driver

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Message-Id: <200807170129.m6H1TXgJ008427@po-mbox300.hop.2iij.net>
Date:	Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:31:03 +0900
From:	Yoichi Yuasa <yoichi_yuasa@...peaks.co.jp>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	yoichi_yuasa@...peaks.co.jp, ralf@...ux-mips.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove old broken Cobalt LCD driver

On Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:18:18 -0700
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:16:40 -0700
> Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:31:32 +0900
> > Yoichi Yuasa <yoichi_yuasa@...peaks.co.jp> wrote:
> > 
> > > Remove old broken Cobalt LCD driver.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Yoichi Yuasa <yoichi_yuasa@...peaks.co.jp>
> > 
> > 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?

The old driver was not maintained for a long time and
did not work(also it was not used).

It was there for someone might fix it.

But all function(LED, MTD, Framebuffer) replced by new drivers.
It's time to go.

Yoichi
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