On 06/24/2014 10:57 PM, Jean Delvare wrote:
Hi Guenter,
On Tue, 24 Jun 2014 19:24:32 -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
On a side note, it appears the chip is long since obsolete, so I wonder
if anyone is still using it.
It wasn't very popular back then either, so odds are indeed that the
current user count is close to 0. However this isn't the only driver in
that case, and I know of no policy to drop drivers just because of
this. Being able to run on old hardware is a Linux feature.
I think it only makes sense to drop drivers which have been heavily
broken for a long time without nobody complaining, or which would
require a major rework nobody is able to spend time on.
Agreed.
There was a discussion about deprecating old drivers a couple
of weeks ago on the kernel summit mailing list, but I don't think
people agreed on anything. Personally I am fine with keeping drivers
in the code base.
Guenter
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