Re: Remove of the UMSDOS

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Thu Aug 05 2004 - 21:11:35 EST


Followup to: <4112218B.2030902@xxxxxx>
By author: Florian Sievers <dopehouse@xxxxxx>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> In the Linux Magazin 09/04(a german linux magazine) i found a news
> artikel about removing the UMSDOS part of the kernel. I don't use this
> module but if you remove parts of the kernel that have been so usefull
> in the past and you won't remove it because of the needing in the past
> than make a new directory in the kernel package that is named r.i.p.
> oder rip. And there you can make txt files which discribes the removed
> parts and a tribute to the authors of these parts.
>
> I hope this was the right place to post this and it was no joke from me.
> It was a seriously suggestion
>

Pretty pointless, though. Old versions of the kernel are archived
indefinitely on kernel.org anyway.

-hpa
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