Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: time for some drivers to be removed? | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | 27 Jul 2003 21:40:43 +0100 |
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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The code in question is obsolete if it wont build because its out of date with respect to the core.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
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