linux-kernel - Re: [RFC 0/5] tty: move stuff around

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Message-ID: <20100831133201.GB2429@suse.de>
Date:	Tue, 31 Aug 2010 06:32:01 -0700
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:	Rogier Wolff <R.E.Wolff@...wizard.nl>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
	Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@...il.com>,
	"Michael H. Warfield" <mhw@...tsend.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC 0/5] tty: move stuff around

On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 01:54:47PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Tuesday 31 August 2010, Rogier Wolff wrote:
> > The question is whether I want the drivers I wrote to stay or to
> > go away?
> 
> More or less, yes.
>  
> > I was paid years ago to make Linux support the Specialix cards. It
> > started with one card from their line of "solutions", but the others
> > followed.
> 
> The most important question is whether you think that there are people
> somewhere in the world that are using the device drivers on machines
> with recent kernels.
> 
> If you still get bug reports for the drivers, that would be a clear
> indication to make them stay, while if you haven't heard from a user
> during the last five years, it's probably obsolete enough that it
> can be removed (after a few kernels of grace period in drivers/staging).

And it is always possible to revert a removal at a later time and fix up
a driver if someone does show up in a few years asking where the driver
went.

thanks,

greg k-h
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