The sk98lin and skge drivers cover the same set of hardware, yet the
sk98lin driver is barely maintained. This patch schedules sk98lin
for removal early next year.
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <[email protected]>
---
Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 9 +++++++++
1 files changed, 9 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
--- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
+++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
@@ -95,3 +95,12 @@ Why: This interface has been obsoleted b
to link against API-compatible library on top of libnfnetlink_queue
instead of the current 'libipq'.
Who: Harald Welte <[email protected]>
+
+---------------------------
+
+What: sk98lin driver
+When: April 2006
+Why: This driver has been essentially unmaintained for some time.
+ Internally it is a mess, and the original authors are unwilling to
+ correct it. Now the skge driver covers all the same hardware.
+Who: John W. Linville <[email protected]>
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