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["Rajko M." <rmatov101@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 22 June 2007 09:04, James Hatridge wrote:
> Hi all...
>
> I just got my July Linux Journal from the States. In the Kernel Development
> column (page 12) it states that the parallel port code is now marked
> "unmaintained" and if someone does not step up to be the maintainer the
> code may be removed from the kernal.
>
> JIM

The chance that someone will jump in for code that has no more use, even for 
printing, is very small, so we can expect to see that code removed. 

I guess even if removed it will be able to live long enough in the same way as 
ppscsi to support few devices that need it. 
 
-- 
Regards,
Rajko.
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