From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>
Cc: Daniel Egger <degger@fhm.edu>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailinglist <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
jgarzik@pobox.com, linux-net@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] MAINTAINERS: remove LAN media entry
Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2004 17:25:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040307162523.GA2440@mars.ravnborg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040307155146.GN22479@fs.tum.de>
On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 04:51:47PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 11:57:11AM +0100, Daniel Egger wrote:
> > On Feb 27, 2004, at 9:54 pm, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> >
> > >IOW:
> > >The entry from MAINTAINER can be removed?
> >
> > This one for sure. The same is probably sensible for the
> > drivers, too. It's just too confusing to not several
> > versions of the driver floating around which need different
> > tools. And since the manufacturer propagates their own
> > version, the linux one should go...
> >...
>
>
> It's a question whether removing drivers from a stable kernel series is
> a good idea, but the following is definitely correct:
Why do you remove it completely, instead of just marking it unmaintained,
and remove the address information?
They when searching you know the you have found the right entry, but
unfortunately it is unmaintained.
Sam
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-07 16:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-26 22:51 What happened to LAN Media Corporation? Adrian Bunk
2004-02-26 22:56 ` Dave Jones
2004-02-27 20:38 ` Adrian Bunk
2004-02-27 1:38 ` Daniel Egger
2004-02-27 20:54 ` Adrian Bunk
2004-02-28 10:57 ` Daniel Egger
2004-03-07 15:50 ` [2.4 patch] MAINTAINERS: remove LAN media entry Adrian Bunk
2004-03-08 5:22 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-03-08 6:04 ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2004-03-08 7:16 ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2004-03-08 9:12 ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2004-03-08 12:54 ` Horst von Brand
2004-03-11 22:53 ` Adrian Bunk
2004-03-07 15:51 ` [2.6 " Adrian Bunk
2004-03-07 16:25 ` Sam Ravnborg [this message]
2004-03-07 16:32 ` Adrian Bunk
2004-03-07 18:40 ` Sam Ravnborg
2004-03-07 16:54 ` Daniel Egger
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