From: Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>,
Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>,
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 1/8 Backport recent 2.6 IDE updates to 2.4.x
Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2003 02:59:49 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030817085949.GA18756@codepoet.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1061109862.21502.0.camel@dhcp23.swansea.linux.org.uk>
On Sun Aug 17, 2003 at 09:44:23AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Sul, 2003-08-17 at 07:12, Erik Andersen wrote:
> > This patch eliminates HDIO_GETGEO_BIG and HDIO_GETGEO_BIG_RAW,
> > where are entirely unused and unnecessary. They were also
> > removed from 2.6.x,
>
> Rejected by 2.4 IDE maintainer. Removing API's (even dumb ones) during
> a stable release is not good practice.
No worries. The other patches do not depend on this one
and I suspected this one might get struck down. I just
carried it along to try and keep the 2.4 and 2.6 drivers
consistant,
-Erik
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Erik B. Andersen http://codepoet-consulting.com/
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-08-17 6:12 [PATCH] 1/8 Backport recent 2.6 IDE updates to 2.4.x Erik Andersen
2003-08-17 8:44 ` Alan Cox
2003-08-17 8:59 ` Erik Andersen [this message]
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