Re: [PATCH][RFC] Remove support for the orphaned, obsolete Digi EPCA driver.

On Mon, 2 Jul 2007 09:14:24 -0400 (EDT)
"Robert P. J. Day" <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <[email protected]>
> 
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> 
>   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 "NOTE:  This driver is obsolete.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This driver is obsolete from the kernel at the point the new digi drivers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
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