On 04.09.2013 21:13, Elie De Brauwer wrote: > 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. Do you have further details for the sk98lin driver? That page then also needs a similar note. > My initial reflex would be that anybody interested in older stuff > already has a habit > with working with version control history. As said, I prefer to hold onto the pages, at least for a while. Cheers, Michael -- 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
