From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: "David D. Hagood" <wowbagger@sktc.net>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: time for some drivers to be removed?
Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 22:56:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030727205638.GD22218@fs.tum.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1059338443.13875.2.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk>
On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 09:40:43PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Sul, 2003-07-27 at 19:45, David D. Hagood wrote:
> > I would disagree - OBSOLETE to me means just that - that module is
> > obsolete. Minix FS, OSS (as opposed to ALSA), and the old non-SCSI,
> > non-IDE HD interfaces would be OBSOLETE.
> >
> > Besides, I have seen cases where Firewire modules wouldn't build for
> > some period of time - would you deem them OBSOLETE?
>
> The code in question is obsolete if it wont build because its out of date
> with respect to the core. The point I was trying to make is we have a
> definition (have had since 2.2) and actively use it. So there is nothing
> to invent here
That's no problem for me.
The only question is how to call the option that allows building only on
UP (e.g. cli/sti usage in the driver)? My suggestion was BROKEN_ON_SMP,
would you suggest OBSOLETE_ON_SMP?
cu
Adrian
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-07-28 1:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-07-24 12:20 time for some drivers to be removed? Robert P. J. Day
2003-07-24 14:58 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-24 15:34 ` Bas Mevissen
2003-07-24 17:32 ` Diego Calleja García
2003-07-24 17:50 ` Robert P. J. Day
2003-07-24 19:16 ` Diego Calleja García
2003-07-24 19:43 ` Robert P. J. Day
2003-07-24 18:02 ` Samuel Flory
2003-07-24 19:07 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-25 10:48 ` Bas Mevissen
2003-07-27 15:31 ` Adrian Bunk
2003-07-27 15:59 ` David D. Hagood
2003-07-27 16:18 ` Adrian Bunk
2003-07-27 16:40 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-27 17:00 ` Adrian Bunk
2003-07-27 18:45 ` David D. Hagood
2003-07-27 20:40 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-27 20:56 ` Adrian Bunk [this message]
2003-07-27 20:56 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-28 2:23 ` Herbert Pötzl
2003-07-29 19:33 ` Adrian Bunk
2003-08-13 20:16 ` Bill Davidsen
2003-08-09 18:04 ` David Woodhouse
2003-08-09 19:36 ` Adrian Bunk
2003-07-24 14:43 John Bradford
2003-07-24 19:24 ` Brian Jackson
2003-07-24 18:29 John Bradford
2003-07-24 18:31 ` Robert P. J. Day
2003-07-24 19:31 ` Eli Carter
2003-07-25 10:48 ` Bas Mevissen
2003-07-25 11:10 John Bradford
2003-07-27 16:22 John Bradford
2003-07-28 7:12 linux
2003-08-05 12:42 Mikael Pettersson
2003-08-05 13:03 ` Adrian Bunk
2003-08-05 13:35 ` Mikael Pettersson
2003-08-05 13:48 ` Adrian Bunk
2003-08-05 14:01 ` Mikael Pettersson
2003-08-06 10:06 ` Claus-Justus Heine
2003-08-09 19:40 ` Adrian Bunk
2003-08-05 16:35 ` Alan Cox
2003-08-05 18:47 ` Leopold Gouverneur
2003-08-13 20:55 John Bradford
2003-08-13 20:50 ` Adrian Bunk
2003-08-13 20:55 ` Bill Davidsen
2003-08-14 5:34 John Bradford
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