On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 10:16:27PM +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-11-18 at 22:40 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > The MTD_PCMCIA driver has:
> > - already been marked as BROKEN in 2.6.0 three years ago and
> > - is still marked as BROKEN.
> >
> > Drivers that had been marked as BROKEN for such a long time seem to be
> > unlikely to be revived in the forseeable future.
>
> Actually, there's hardware currently on its way to me, and I plan to fix
> this driver fairly soon.
OK.
> > But if anyone wants to ever revive this driver, the code is still
> > present in the older kernel releases.
>
> I'm unconvinced by that argument in the general case. People don't go
> looking back through git history, do they? Drivers such as this don't
> really do any harm as they are, and they're _much_ easier to find when
> someone does want to fix them up.
If there is an already merged driver that is marked as broken for a long
time, there are usually two possible cases:
- it is really unused
- patches to fix it are pending or floating around
A patch to remove a driver is usually the best way for getting the
information which case a driver belongs into (a good example might be
the zr36120 driver that seems to have found a new maintainer due to my
removal patch).
And if there's no reaction, the usefullness of very outdated and
usually non-compiling code is quite questionable.
> dwmw2
cu
Adrian
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