Re: time for some drivers to be removed?

[Claus-Justus Heine <claus@mathematik.uni-freiburg.de>]

Mikael Pettersson schrieb:
> Adrian Bunk writes:
>  > On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 03:35:10PM +0200, Mikael Pettersson wrote:
>  > > 
>  > > ftape-4.04? That's been a non-integrated external package for ages and ages.
>  > > I doubt there's been any updates in it for 2.5/2.6 kernels.
>  > >...
>  > 
>  > Is there a good reason why it wasn't / isn't integrated?
> 
> Claus-Justus (the official maintainer) never bothered doing it.

I gave up trying to update the in-kernel ftape version because I my updates 
didn't come through (that was before the 2.2 and again before the 2.4 kernels 
were released). There are more pleasant wastes of time than to try to go 
through a one-man super-maintainer's eye of a needle.

Actually, the in-kernel version of ftape should be replaced or deleted, it is 
damn outdated anyway and buggy.

In principle, there were some attempts to elect a new ftape-maintainer some 
time ago (Roby Basak, if I remember right).

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.

Greetings

Claus

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