From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161130AbWAHBtE (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Jan 2006 20:49:04 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161131AbWAHBtD (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Jan 2006 20:49:03 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:51681 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161130AbWAHBtC (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Jan 2006 20:49:02 -0500 Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2006 17:45:23 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: David Woodhouse Cc: bunk@stusta.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] no longer mark MTD_OBSOLETE_CHIPS as BROKEN and remove broken MTD_OBSOLETE_CHIPS drivers Message-Id: <20060107174523.460f1849.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <1136680734.30348.34.camel@pmac.infradead.org> References: <20060107220702.GZ3774@stusta.de> <1136678409.30348.26.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <20060108002457.GE3774@stusta.de> <1136680734.30348.34.camel@pmac.infradead.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org David Woodhouse wrote: > > > > 2. What was the reason for marking them obsolete? > > > > The changelog says: > > - David Woodhouse: large MTD and JFFS[2] update > > I didn't ask who; I knew that. I asked you _why_. Admittedly, I happen > to know that too - but I want to know if _you_ know it. > > Since you've taken it upon yourself to decide the timescale of the > removal, surely it's reasonable to expect that you do actually know what > you're removing and why it's obsolescent? > Hey, Adrian isn't an MTD developer - give him a break. What he's doing here is to poke other maintainers into getting the tree cleaned up. It's a useful thing to do. If you, an MTD maintainer, can tell him what we _should_ be doing, I'm sure Adrian would help.