On Sun, Nov 19, 2006 at 03:06:00PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > unmaintained != not used > > As an example, some people might be unhappy if the floppy driver that is > unmaintained for ages and not in a good state was removed. I understand. However, if it was slated to be removed, said people might be inclined to start maintaining it. We have a bar for inclusion of new code into the tree - why shouldn't a quality bar also be applied to old code in the tree? Cheers, Muli - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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