On Fri, 2019-06-21 at 11:44 -0500, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > On Fri, Jun 21, 2019 at 04:20:24PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > On Fri, 21 Jun 2019 15:16:04 +0530 > > Puranjay Mohan <puranjay12@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > This patch series removes the private duplicates of PCI definitions in > > > favour of generic definitions defined in pci_regs.h. > > > > Why bother ? It's an ancient obsolete card ? > > That's a fair question. > > Is there anything that would indicate that "this file is obsolete and > problems shouldn't be fixed"? Nobody wants to waste time on things > that don't need to be fixed, but I don't know how to tell if something > is obsolete. > > My naive assumption is that if something is in the tree, it's fair > game for fixes and cleanups. I'd prefer to move the old, crufty, obsolete and generally unsupported drivers to new directory trees and possibly symlink those drivers to their current locations. I suggested on the kernel summit list: https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/ksummit-discuss/2019-June/006482.html --- Perhaps a mechanism to move these old, generally unsupported by an actual maintainer, and rarely tested drivers out of the mainline drivers directory into a separate obsolete directory would help isolate the whitespace and trivial api changes.
