On Thu, November 30, 2006 08:09, Adrian Bunk wrote: >> > But if anyone wants to ever revive this driver, the code is still >> > present in the older kernel releases. >> >> I'm unconvinced by that argument in the general case. People don't go >> looking back through git history, do they? Drivers such as this don't >> really do any harm as they are, and they're _much_ easier to find when >> someone does want to fix them up. > > If there is an already merged driver that is marked as broken for a long > time, there are usually two possible cases: > - it is really unused > - patches to fix it are pending or floating around > > A patch to remove a driver is usually the best way for getting the > information which case a driver belongs into (a good example might be > the zr36120 driver that seems to have found a new maintainer due to my > removal patch). > > And if there's no reaction, the usefullness of very outdated and > usually non-compiling code is quite questionable.
I want this driver :) I have PCMCIA Linear Flash cards, and I want to write binary images on it, but I can't (i don't want to use kernel 2.4, but probably I'll have to). tm _______________________________________________ Linux PCMCIA reimplementation list http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-pcmcia
