On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 2:38 PM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) <mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello Elie, > > On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 8:13 AM, Elie De Brauwer > <eliedebrauwer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hello Michael, list, >> >> The current release of the manpages contains wavelan(4), but support for >> this module/driver is gone since several years. Starting from 2.6.32 >> (2009 )the driver was put in a staging mode ready for deprecation: >> >> The announcement e-mail is here: http://lwn.net/Articles/367876/ >> Then it lived in staging for two more releases with the following cry >> for help: http://lxr.linux.no/linux+v2.6.34.14/drivers/staging/wavelan/TODO >> and disappeared since 2.6.35 and then all other traces (documentation, etc) >> were also removed. >> >> Hence I think it's pointless to continue dragging this information around, >> if the driver doesn't have much use to people anymore, I doubt the manpage >> has. > > I'm reluctant to discard the page outright (occasionally, people do > want to see even obsolete information), so I've simply added a note to > the top of the page to say that the driver was removed in 2.6.35. No problem, I only saw after my patch that has also happened for the sk98lin(4) page. My initial reflex would be that anybody interested in older stuff already has a habit with working with version control history. my 2 cents E. -- Elie De Brauwer -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
