Re: [2.6 patch] MAINTAINERS: remove LAN media entry

From: Sam Ravnborg
Date: Sun Mar 07 2004 - 11:26:06 EST


On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 04:51:47PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 11:57:11AM +0100, Daniel Egger wrote:
> > On Feb 27, 2004, at 9:54 pm, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> >
> > >IOW:
> > >The entry from MAINTAINER can be removed?
> >
> > This one for sure. The same is probably sensible for the
> > drivers, too. It's just too confusing to not several
> > versions of the driver floating around which need different
> > tools. And since the manufacturer propagates their own
> > version, the linux one should go...
> >...
>
>
> It's a question whether removing drivers from a stable kernel series is
> a good idea, but the following is definitely correct:

Why do you remove it completely, instead of just marking it unmaintained,
and remove the address information?
They when searching you know the you have found the right entry, but
unfortunately it is unmaintained.

Sam
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