Re: 2.2 missing features

Nathan Hand (nathanh@wookie.chirp.com.au)
Mon, 19 Oct 1998 08:57:01 +1000 (EST)


On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, Andi Kleen wrote:

> But the work has to be done anyways. If the people are not interested in
> making their work usable for 2.<next stable release> that shows that they're
> not interested in long-term maintainability of the feature, which raises
> the question if the feature should be added at all.

The corollary is that drivers without a maintainer should be removed
from the standard distribution. If nothing else, that would at least
encourage one cluey user of that driver to take up the slack, and it
would prevent unkempt code from cluttering the source tree.

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