academia contribution to the kernel

[Javier Martinez Canillas]

On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 2:58 PM, Greg KH <greg at kroah.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 09:44:25PM +1200, Ronnie Collinson wrote:
>> Quite generic, but over the last N months or year what feature or some form of
>> milestone has excited and/or pleased you the most, excluding 2.3 numbering.
>> Could be intersting.
>
> Ah, yes, you were not the first one to think of this one, it's on my
> list already :)
>

I have another question. Maybe a silly one but here it goes:

As far as I know linux staging is not only a mean to add code that
still is not in a mergeable form but also to deprecate old code. This
also applies to old subsystem like IBM MCA and ISA? Are these old
buses and ancient architectures being deprecated in the next 3.x
releases?

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Javier Martínez Canillas
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PhD Student in High Performance Computing
Computer Architecture and Operating System Department (CAOS)
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Barcelona, Spain