Re: so what *is* obsolete and removable?

From: Randy Dunlap
Date: Mon Apr 16 2007 - 19:11:19 EST


On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 00:39:10 +0200 Tilman Schmidt wrote:

> Am 15.04.2007 22:55 schrieb Robert P. J. Day:
> > as i recall, the isdn4linux was *un*obsoleted, wasn't it?
>
> Actually, it wasn't.
>
> We *did* reach a consensus that isdn4linux is not obsolete in the
> accepted sense of the word, because there is no replacement for it
> so far.
>
> OTOH I have since submitted (twice, in fact) a patch that would remove
> the "(obsolete)" label from the Kconfig entry, but somehow nothing
> ever became of it. My submissions just linger in LKML, uncommented and
> unmerged.

Did you submit the patch to Andrew Morton?
Is the patch in the -mm patchset?
Did Karsten ack the patch?

If the patch is in -mm and it's not critical (like this subject),
then it probably won't be merged until after 2.6.21 is released...


> To sum it up, we agree that the "(obsolete)" label is wrong, but we
> won't remove it. I have no idea how to resolve that situation.
>
> What I do know is that it would be very wrong to remove isdn4linux,
> because it has an existing userbase with nowhere else to go.


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~Randy
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