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How about a driver cleanup on a regular basis?

How about a driver cleanup on a regular basis?

Posted Sep 4, 2008 10:28 UTC (Thu) by mosfet (guest, #45339)
Parent article: Linux 3.0?

Since the kernel releases tend to be on a regular base anyway, why not call every n-th (n=10?) release a "remove unmaintained driver cruft release"? Maybe this would stimulate long-term maintainership ...

(Guess this has been discussed somewhere I haven't looked yet)


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