24 May
2011
24 May
'11
3:46 p.m.
On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 03:43:48PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
Can we drop most of MCA, EISA and ISA bus if we are going to have a big version change ? A driver spring clean is much overdue and it's all in git in case someone wishes to sneak out at midnight and bring some crawly horror back from the dead.
Dunno about MCA but I doubt we can kill all of (E)ISA. i8253, i8259 and a few others still refuse hard to die.
Is it worth to setup a system to track success / failure reports for drivers and ditch drivers once there are no success reports for a driver for too long? It may not be a good idea - people tend not report success much more rarely than failure.
(On that matter, I wonder if there are 5.25" USB floppy drives ...)
Ralf