Re: Unmaintained Driver Deprecation
On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 08:53:34AM -0500, David Nusinow wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I think it's time to start dealing with driver deprecation on a more
> active level. I'm not sure how far off server 1.5 is, but I'd like to be
> well ahead of it in dealing with the changes it brings. It should be
> obvious now that almost all the input drivers are going away, and a few of
> the video drivers as well. My feeling is that we should give people a
> chance to try and save these drivers though, so we should work up a mail to
> debian-devel-announce detailing why these drivers will be going away, and
> what people can do about it.
>
> This week I'll come up with a list of the drivers that haven't been
> ported to the new input and pci-rework frameworks and also compose a draft
> of the mail. I'll send it here for comments so we can make sure it's well
> written before it's sent. If you guys have any thoughts on the matter, or
> suggestions for writing the mail, please let me know.
Given all the activity upstream both on-list and in bugzilla I think it's
best to wait out this email. I don't want to get people in a tizzy only to
find that their driver has been fixed an hour ago by a surprisingly
motivated arch linux developer :-)
- David Nusinow
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