On Sun, 2006-12-17 at 21:03 +0100, Krzysztof Halasa wrote:
> James Bottomley <[email protected]> writes:
>
> > I really don't see a need to declare drivers obsolete unless they bitrot
> > to the point they're demonstrably useless and no-one wants to step up to
> > fix them, which is what the BROKEN flag is for.
>
> How do you know if the driver is broken? Especially if it still
> compiles?
>
> Some of these things are 20 years old.
One of the touted benefits of Linux is that we run on old hardware.
Unless the driver is demonstrably wrong (and they do become so as the
APIs evolve) or it fails to compile because of bitrotting, there's no
real urgency to remove it, is there?
The reverse (how do you know if someone's still using the driver) is
equally hard to determine.
James
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