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Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:38:07 -0700 From: Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de> To: david@...g.hm Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>, Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] strip: move driver to staging On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 11:39:54AM -0700, david@...g.hm wrote: > >> now it appears that you have to have 'enough' users (an amount undefined) > > > > That amount would be 1. This driver does not have that, so it can be > > removed. > > while I definantly agree that this driver is unlikly to have many users, > unless it is known broken (which David Miller has stated that it is, but > had not been mentioned previously in this thread), how can you know that > the number of users has dropped below 1? As the driver is known to be broken, I would think that the number of users has dropped below 1 :) And again, if someone for this driver shows up, it is _trivial_ to add it back to the tree. thanks, greg k-h -- 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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