ITE 8212 and pwc drivers absent in Rawhide

[Greg KH]

On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 09:25:50AM +0100, Peter Backlund wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> I'd like to see the ITE 8212 IDE/RAID pci card driver
> ( CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IT8212) and the pwc webcam driver back in the kernel.
> Is there any reason why they were removed?

The pwc driver author asked for it to be removed.  It no longer has a
maintainer nor anyone who wants to support it.  Until then it will
remain outside of the kernel tree (and _someone_ needs to actually
submit it for inclusion...)

thanks,

greg k-h