From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S272560AbTG1BH3 (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Jul 2003 21:07:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S272559AbTG1ADu (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Jul 2003 20:03:50 -0400 Received: from zeus.kernel.org ([204.152.189.113]:31477 "EHLO zeus.kernel.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S272734AbTG0W6n (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Jul 2003 18:58:43 -0400 Subject: Re: time for some drivers to be removed? From: Alan Cox To: "David D. Hagood" Cc: Adrian Bunk , "Robert P. J. Day" , Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <3F241DC0.7080408@sktc.net> References: <20030727153118.GP22218@fs.tum.de> <3F23F6EB.7070502@sktc.net> <1059324018.13442.0.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> <3F241DC0.7080408@sktc.net> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Message-Id: <1059338443.13875.2.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 (1.2.2-5) Date: 27 Jul 2003 21:40:43 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sul, 2003-07-27 at 19:45, David D. Hagood wrote: > I would disagree - OBSOLETE to me means just that - that module is > obsolete. Minix FS, OSS (as opposed to ALSA), and the old non-SCSI, > non-IDE HD interfaces would be OBSOLETE. > > Besides, I have seen cases where Firewire modules wouldn't build for > some period of time - would you deem them OBSOLETE? The code in question is obsolete if it wont build because its out of date with respect to the core. The point I was trying to make is we have a definition (have had since 2.2) and actively use it. So there is nothing to invent here