On Wed, 8 Dec 1999, Christopher Masto wrote:
> I fully agree that these things are neccessary and good. I just think
> we need avoid jumping the gun on removing the old code, when some
> people still need it to boot their machines.
Actually I completely disagree. When you leave in old code in the tree,
people who can't use the new code for whatever reason (technical problems,
laziness, etc.) will use the old code. Forever. And people tend to not
report such things - if it works with the old code, why bother? If you
take something away from them, they will at least notice that it's broken
and report it to the author.
>From my own experience, I lost the WaveLAN driver with the newbus stuff.
If it was somehow still working (for example through some compatibility
code for the old bus system), I'd not have done anything about it. But as
it was broken, I sat down and fixed it. Although my time is as limited as
everybody else's and it took me a whole day, I leared a lot through this.
Blaz Zupan, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://home.amis.net/blaz/
Medinet d.o.o., Linhartova 21, 2000 Maribor, Slovenia
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