From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932741AbXBTJEc (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Feb 2007 04:04:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932732AbXBTJEb (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Feb 2007 04:04:31 -0500 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:50658 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932717AbXBTJEa (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Feb 2007 04:04:30 -0500 Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 01:04:27 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <20070220.010427.07640976.davem@davemloft.net> To: bunk@stusta.de Cc: akpm@osdl.org, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC: 2.6 patch] remove the broken SUN_AURORA driver From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <20070220000703.GN13958@stusta.de> References: <20070220000703.GN13958@stusta.de> X-Mailer: Mew version 5.1.52 on Emacs 21.4 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) 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 From: Adrian Bunk Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 01:07:03 +0100 > The SUN_AURORA driver: > - has been marked as BROKEN for more than two years 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. > > But if anyone wants to ever revive this driver, the code is still > present in the older kernel releases. > > Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk Applied, thanks Adrian.