From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S272634AbTG1CJs (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Jul 2003 22:09:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S272638AbTG1CJc (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Jul 2003 22:09:32 -0400 Received: from www.13thfloor.AT ([212.16.59.250]:25486 "EHLO www.13thfloor.at") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S272634AbTG1CIj (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Jul 2003 22:08:39 -0400 Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 04:23:36 +0200 From: Herbert =?iso-8859-1?Q?P=F6tzl?= To: Alan Cox Cc: Adrian Bunk , "David D. Hagood" , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: time for some drivers to be removed? Message-ID: <20030728022336.GC32505@www.13thfloor.at> Reply-To: herbert@13thfloor.at Mail-Followup-To: Alan Cox , Adrian Bunk , "David D. Hagood" , Linux Kernel Mailing List References: <20030727153118.GP22218@fs.tum.de> <3F23F6EB.7070502@sktc.net> <1059324018.13442.0.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> <3F241DC0.7080408@sktc.net> <1059338443.13875.2.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> <20030727205638.GD22218@fs.tum.de> <1059339370.13871.4.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1059339370.13871.4.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 09:56:11PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > On Sul, 2003-07-27 at 21:56, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > 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? > > Interesting question - whatever I guess. We don't have an existing convention. > How many drivers have we got nowdays that failing on just SMP ? I'm no native speaker, but Webster says: obsolete: a) no longer in use or no longer useful b) of a kind or style no longer current broken: 2) damaged or altered by breaking 5) not complete or full so I would prefer BROKEN over OBSOLETE, at least for drivers which are known _not_ to work as expected, but OBSOLETE over BROKEN for oldfashioned, but working drivers superceeded by newer ones ... JMHO, Herbert > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/