From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757565AbWK1WQf (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Nov 2006 17:16:35 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757574AbWK1WQf (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Nov 2006 17:16:35 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:41349 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757565AbWK1WQe (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Nov 2006 17:16:34 -0500 Subject: Re: [RFC: 2.6 patch] remove the broken MTD_PCMCIA driver From: David Woodhouse To: Adrian Bunk Cc: Simon Evans , linux-pcmcia@lists.infradead.org, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20061118214056.GB31879@stusta.de> References: <20061118214056.GB31879@stusta.de> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 22:16:27 +0000 Message-Id: <1164752187.14595.20.camel@pmac.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.2.1 (2.8.2.1-2.fc6.dwmw2.1) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 2006-11-18 at 22:40 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > The MTD_PCMCIA driver has: > - already been marked as BROKEN in 2.6.0 three years ago and > - is still marked as BROKEN. > > Drivers that had been marked as BROKEN for such a long time seem to be > unlikely to be revived in the forseeable future. Actually, there's hardware currently on its way to me, and I plan to fix this driver fairly soon. > 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. -- dwmw2