Re: time for some drivers to be removed?

From: "Herbert Pötzl" <herbert@13thfloor.at>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>,
	"David D. Hagood" <wowbagger@sktc.net>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: time for some drivers to be removed?
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 04:23:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030728022336.GC32505@www.13thfloor.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1059339370.13871.4.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk>

On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 09:56:11PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Sul, 2003-07-27 at 21:56, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > That's no problem for me.
> > 
> > The only question is how to call the option that allows building only on
> > UP (e.g. cli/sti usage in the driver)? My suggestion was BROKEN_ON_SMP,
> > would you suggest OBSOLETE_ON_SMP?
> 
> Interesting question - whatever I guess. We don't have an existing convention.
> How many drivers have we got nowdays that failing on just SMP ?

I'm no native speaker, but Webster says:

obsolete:

 a) no longer in use or no longer useful 
 b) of a kind or style no longer current

broken:

 2) damaged or altered by breaking
 5) not complete or full

so I would prefer BROKEN over OBSOLETE, at least
for drivers which are known _not_ to work as expected,
but OBSOLETE over BROKEN for oldfashioned, but working
drivers superceeded by newer ones ...

JMHO,
Herbert

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