Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 28 Feb 2004 11:54:39 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 2.4.25: Get rid of obsolete LMC driver |
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Daniel Egger wrote: > Hi Marcello, > > This patch plus an additional > rm -r drivers/net/wan/lmc > gets rid of the obsolete LMC WAN driver and all references to it in the > Configure.in and Makefiles and MAINTAINERS. > > When LMC was taken over by SBE their kernel version of the driver went > effectively unmaintained after Alan Cox turned down their LMC->SBE > rename patch. Today SBE recommends their own version of the driver only > which unfortunately needs different tools and also clashes with the LMC > driver when not compiled as module. This general recommendation from > their support effectively makes the in-kernel code obsete. > > Their drivers can be retrieved from: > ftp://ftp.sbei.com/pub/OpenSource/Linux/sbe_driver/sbe_linux-4.0a.tgz
Alan Cox vetoed a rename patch, so you want to rip out the driver instead??? For an unreviewed out-of-tree driver?
Without a suitable replacement, I don't give a shit about what SBE recommends.
Veto.
Jeff
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