linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/4] strip: move driver to staging

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Date:	Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:32:42 +0000
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	david@...g.hm
Cc:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>,
	"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

O> 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?

By the fact it never turns up in bugzilla, in kernel questions or
in google - and then by deleting it and checking for screaming noises.

Do you have a better testing procedure ?
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