On 05/24/2011 08:07 AM, jonsmirl@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 10:43 AM, Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Can we drop most of MCA, EISA and ISA bus if we are going to have a big >> version change ? A driver spring clean is much overdue and it's all in >> git in case someone wishes to sneak out at midnight and bring some crawly >> horror back from the dead. > > 2.8 could mark the beginning of the great cleanup > --- work out the details of what needs to be cleaned and set a goal > --- remove old buses/driver, switch to device tree, graphics, 32/64 > merges, etc > 3.0 would mark its completion > I think this whole discussion misses the essence of the new development model, which is that we no longer do these kinds of feature-based major milestones. If we want to to deprecate lots of drivers (which I personally would advocate against -- I have built systems specifically to run a real floppy drive since the Linux floppy driver is amazingly flexible and can read/write a lot of formats that nothing else can, including USB floppies) then we should do that in the normal course of action, incrementally, and listed in feature-removal-schedule.txt, not all at once due to some arbitrary milestone. We have found it works better this way. -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
