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Message-ID: <20150209194813.180e54ae@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2015 19:48:13 +0000 From: One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk> To: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@...p.cc> Cc: Bas Peters <baspeters93@...il.com>, Karsten Keil <kkeil@...ux-pingi.de>, Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>, Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>, Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@...entembedded.com>, "isdn@...ux-pingi.de" <isdn@...ux-pingi.de>, Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: Kill I4L? > The reason is the maintenance load it produces. There's a continuous, > annoying trickle of patch proposals, discussions, conflicts with > development in other, still actively maintained areas of the kernel, > and so on. The present discussion being a point in case. > > > Does it hurt anyone to leave the code in there, despite it barely > > being used? > > Yes it does. Not much, but the pain is increasing over the years. > Every time someone tries to touch that code there's the problem > that no one can actually answer for it, much less test anything. The same has been happening with a lot of other code. For i2o I've followed the pattern a few other drivers have used. I sent GregKH a patch to move it into staging, and if nobody steps up then it will vanish in a few releases. > > We're not talking about a particularly huge driver here, either. > > But one that's particularly difficult to maintain, without > providing any noticeable benefit in return. I'm also not sure a pretty, polished and untested driver is actually better than someone who needs it going back to an old tree and a known working driver to forward port. Alan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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