Re: time for some drivers to be removed?

From: Brian Jackson <brian@brianandsara.net>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: time for some drivers to be removed?
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 14:24:40 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200307241424.40725.brian@brianandsara.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200307241443.h6OEh3Qd000249@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk>

On Thursday 24 July 2003 09:43 am, John Bradford wrote:
<snip>
>
> Some people might be interested in it.  Maybe somebody would like to
> fix it, but can't buy the physical hardware for any price.  Maybe
> everybody who has the hardware can't fix it because other kernel bugs
> prevent them from using the latest kernels on their machines.  Why
> remove it when it's doing no harm whatsoever?

I can think of one reason:
$ ls -lhGrS /usr/portage/distfiles/linux-2.*

-rw-r--r--    1      23M Apr 10  2002 
/usr/portage/distfiles/linux-2.4.18.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r--    1      25M Aug 19  2002 
/usr/portage/distfiles/linux-2.4.19.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r--    1      26M Feb 22 21:26 
/usr/portage/distfiles/linux-2.4.20.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r--    1      27M Jun 13 09:52 
/usr/portage/distfiles/linux-2.4.21.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r--    1      30M Feb 10 13:05 
/usr/portage/distfiles/linux-2.5.60.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r--    1      30M Feb 24 13:30 
/usr/portage/distfiles/linux-2.5.63.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r--    1      30M Mar  4 21:47 
/usr/portage/distfiles/linux-2.5.64.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r--    1      30M Mar 17 16:29 
/usr/portage/distfiles/linux-2.5.65.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r--    1      30M Apr 19 22:02 
/usr/portage/distfiles/linux-2.5.68.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r--    1      30M Mar 24 17:23 
/usr/portage/distfiles/linux-2.5.66.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r--    1      30M Apr 11 12:16 
/usr/portage/distfiles/linux-2.5.67.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r--    1      32M Jul 10 15:21 
/usr/portage/distfiles/linux-2.5.75.tar.bz2

2.6 doesn't seem to be swelling that fast, but 2.4 is

>
> John.

--Brian Jackson

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