From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758156AbXGBNkI (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Jul 2007 09:40:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755037AbXGBNj5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Jul 2007 09:39:57 -0400 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:42053 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754926AbXGBNj5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Jul 2007 09:39:57 -0400 Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2007 14:46:05 +0100 From: Alan Cox To: "Robert P. J. Day" Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , eng.linux@digi.com Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] Remove support for the orphaned, obsolete Digi EPCA driver. Message-ID: <20070702144605.5cf99b3a@the-village.bc.nu> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.1 (GTK+ 2.10.8; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Organization: Red Hat UK Cyf., Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SL4 1TE, Y Deyrnas Gyfunol. Cofrestrwyd yng Nghymru a Lloegr o'r rhif cofrestru 3798903 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 On Mon, 2 Jul 2007 09:14:24 -0400 (EDT) "Robert P. J. Day" wrote: > > Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day > > --- > > 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 "NOTE: This driver is obsolete.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 This driver is obsolete from the kernel at the point the new digi drivers are merged.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