From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
eng.linux@digi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] Remove support for the orphaned, obsolete Digi EPCA driver.
Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2007 14:46:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070702144605.5cf99b3a@the-village.bc.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0707020906530.19712@localhost.localdomain>
On Mon, 2 Jul 2007 09:14:24 -0400 (EDT)
"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com> wrote:
>
> Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
>
> ---
>
> everything indicates that this driver is thoroughly dead. the
> MAINTAINERS file describes it as "Orphaned", while the file
> Documentation/digiepca.txt reads:
NAK
> "NOTE: This driver is obsolete. Digi provides a 2.6 driver (dgdm) at
> http://www.digi.com for PCI cards. They no longer maintain this driver,
> and have no 2.6 driver for ISA cards.
This driver is obsolete from the kernel at the point the new digi drivers
are merged.
> This driver requires a number of user-space tools. They can be acquired from
> http://www.digi.com, but only works with 2.4 kernels."
So fix them or merge the newer digi drivers first.
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-02 13:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-02 13:14 Robert P. J. Day
2007-07-02 13:46 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2007-07-02 13:48 ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-07-02 14:15 ` Alan Cox
2007-07-02 14:20 ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-07-02 14:56 ` Kilau, Scott
2007-07-02 15:05 ` Alan Cox
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