From: Marc Kleine-Budde <m...@pengutronix.de> Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2015 23:14:41 +0200
> On 04/24/2015 08:47 PM, Joe Perches wrote: >> On Fri, 2015-04-24 at 19:20 +0200, Michael Grzeschik wrote: >>> Hi! >> >> Hello. >> >>> This patch series tries to reanimate the ARCNET hardware layer to be >>> somehow readable and maintainable again. It includes a lot of cleanup >>> patches. It also adds some fixes which leads the layer to become usable >>> again. And as a special treatment it adds more features like correct >>> loading and unloading of the com20020 card. >> >> Wow. Good for you, but why? Does anyone still use these? > > Yes, there are parts of the industry where "old" machines are > retrofitted with new hardware...and a lot of these machines still talk > ARCNET :) But the real issue is, this layer is development wise in the same category as the IDE layer. Any non-trivial change is nothing but pure risk, especially given the low level of test coverage the code gets. So I really only want to see the most critical obvious bug fixes submitted for this layer and drivers. And no I will not accept an argument stating that you have to restructure and clean this code up in order to fix the bugs. That's bogus. I'm rejecting this patch series, sorry. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
