[PATCH] MAINTAINERS: mark isapnp as obsolete

B K Karthik bkkarthik at pesu.pes.edu
Wed Apr 28 08:32:05 EDT 2021


On 21/04/28 03:23PM, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 28, 2021 at 02:17:00PM +0200, Jaroslav Kysela wrote:
> > Dne 28. 04. 21 v 13:11 Greg KH napsal(a):
> > > On Wed, Apr 28, 2021 at 04:35:36PM +0530, Anupama K Patil wrote:
> > >> isapnp code is very old and according to this link
> > >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legacy_Plug_and_Play#Specifications
> > >> from Wikipedia, even Windows Vista disabled ISA PnP by default.
> > >>
> > >> This change is in follow up to
> > >> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210422180322.7wlyg63kv3n2k6id@ubuntu/T/#u
> > >> and https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210424194301.jmsqpycvsm7izbk3@ubuntu/T/#u
> > >>
> > >> Suggested-by: B K Karthik <bkkarthik at pesu.pes.edu>
> > >> Signed-off-by: Anupama K Patil <anupamakpatil123 at gmail.com>
> > > 
> > > Has the maintainer said this is unsupported?
> > 
> > I've no idea, if there're any users at the time, but there are many drivers
> > which depend on this code.
> 
> IMHO, this is exactly "Odd fixes" - code not really dead, but not really
> alive too.

Okay! Does this have to come around as a v2 with 'Odd Fixes' instead of obsolete?
Or should that be a separate patch?

Or should we just wait for the maintainer's reply?
Sorry i'm a little confused.

thanks,

karthik

> 
> Thanks
> 
> > 
> > I'll try to reply to patch threads.
> > 
> > 						Jaroslav
> > 
> > -- 
> > Jaroslav Kysela <perex at perex.cz>
> > Linux Sound Maintainer; ALSA Project; Red Hat, Inc.



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