Re: Remove GNU Mach's unused device drivers

[Thomas Bushnell BSG]

"Alfred M\. Szmidt" <ams@gnu.org> writes:

>    >    Would there be any objections if I'd remove all native device
>    >    drivers from the gnumach-1-branch that are not used anymore?
>    >
>    > Care to explain what that would achive?  Wouldn't it be better to
>    > simply make the native drivers work?
>
>    We don't have any need to make drivers work which are redundant.
>    Since we have CVS, it is good not to include code which we don't
>    use and don't have any plans to use.
>
> `All native drivers' does not equal to `redundant' or `don't have any
> plans to use'.

I didn't say they mean the same thing.  Please respond to the actual
points I make, rather than irrelevancies.

If a driver is redundant, then we have no need to care about it.  If a
driver doesn't work, we should not include it.  The only exceptions
are where there is a concrete plan to make a non-working driver into a
working one.  

Thomas