From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S273078AbTHITk1 (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Aug 2003 15:40:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S275385AbTHITk1 (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Aug 2003 15:40:27 -0400 Received: from hermes.fachschaften.tu-muenchen.de ([129.187.202.12]:16326 "HELO hermes.fachschaften.tu-muenchen.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S273078AbTHITkX (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Aug 2003 15:40:23 -0400 Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2003 21:40:16 +0200 From: Adrian Bunk To: Claus-Justus Heine Cc: Mikael Pettersson , heine@instmath.rwth-aachen.de, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: time for some drivers to be removed? Message-ID: <20030809194015.GM16091@fs.tum.de> References: <200308051242.h75CgSj6028203@harpo.it.uu.se> <20030805130324.GC16091@fs.tum.de> <16175.45710.993756.301205@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <20030805134823.GD16091@fs.tum.de> <16175.47282.627835.2678@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <3F30D33C.3010904@mathematik.uni-freiburg.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3F30D33C.3010904@mathematik.uni-freiburg.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 12:06:52PM +0200, Claus-Justus Heine wrote: >... > I could provide a kernel patch for 2.4 and 2.6 to update the in-kernel > version of ftape if that is wanted. > > Otherwise I'd suggest to remove me from the maintainer's list and/or delete > ftape from the kernel source tree. Allthough I'm no user of ftape I do consider it a bad thing that the in-kernel version of a driver is that much outdated. Could you provide a patch against 2.6? > Greetings > > Claus TIA Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed