From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752915AbaHTMxX (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Aug 2014 08:53:23 -0400 Received: from mail-lb0-f181.google.com ([209.85.217.181]:51934 "EHLO mail-lb0-f181.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752127AbaHTMxV (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Aug 2014 08:53:21 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20140820132902.7eed767f@alan.etchedpixels.co.uk> References: <20140820024638.GA25240@rhlx01.hs-esslingen.de> <20140820051815.GA1109@core.coreip.homeip.net> <20140820063130.GA11226@core.coreip.homeip.net> <20140820132902.7eed767f@alan.etchedpixels.co.uk> Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 14:53:19 +0200 X-Google-Sender-Auth: WrM4T9sydkjVlFCUaKvc1YghHLM Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] SOUND: kill gameport bits From: Geert Uytterhoeven To: One Thousand Gnomes Cc: Takashi Iwai , Dmitry Torokhov , Andreas Mohr , "linux-input@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Vojtech Pavlik , Jiri Kosina Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 2:29 PM, One Thousand Gnomes wrote: >> It's the gameport core code that is currently broken under some >> situation, right? If so, marking it as broken is the first step, and >> we don't need to touch else. We may fix it later, or we may not. If >> the thing isn't improved, then we can drop the whole stuff. > > It's only broken on x86 with frequency changing. x86 is not the only > platform with ISA or PCI bus or gameports. > > It really ought to go via staging, and the other arch maintainers be > asked. The m68k and mips world does include a department of relics and > retro-computing 8) It seems there are no m68k-specific drivers with gameport support... Good, let's kill all joystick ports that are newer than ports with 2600-style connectors ;-) Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds