On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 01:15:18PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > That thought had occurred to me as well. I removed the oldest ISDN > drivers already some years ago, and the OSS sound drivers > got removed as well, and comedi got converted to the dma-mapping > interfaces, so there isn't much left at all now. This is what we > have as of v4.17-rc1: Yes, I've been looking at various grotty old bits to purge. Usually I've been looking for some non-tree wide patches and CCed the last active people to see if they care. In a few cases people do, but most often no one does. > My feeling is that we want to keep most of the arch specific > ones, in particular removing the m68k drivers would break > a whole class of machines. For the arch specific ones it would good to just ping the relevant maintainers. Especially m68k and parisc folks seems to be very responsive.
