Re: [PATCH] Re: 2.6 eicon/ and hardware/eicon/ drivers using thesame symbols

[Armin Schindler]

On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 01:33:53PM +0200, Armin Schindler wrote:
> > The legacy eicon driver in drivers/isdn/eicon is the old one and will be
> > removed as soon as all features went to the new driver.
> > Anyway this old driver was never meant to be non-module.
>
> What about just killing it off?  If users really want the old one
> on 2.6 you can put up a tarball for them somewhere.
>
> The driver is so horrinly ugly that it better goes away sooner than
> later..

Oh thank you! Okay, it's old, too old.

It's not just "the old one", this driver still supports more than 4 ISDN
cards, which are not yet supported by the other driver.

But maybe you are right...

Armin


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