From: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
To: Diego Calleja <diegocg@gmail.com>
Cc: Stephane Wirtel <stephane.wirtel@belgacom.net>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux-2.6.13 : __check_region is deprecated
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 01:34:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9a8748490508291634416a18bc@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050830012813.7737f6f6.diegocg@gmail.com>
On 8/30/05, Diego Calleja <diegocg@gmail.com> wrote:
[snip]
>
> /me wonders why check_region has not been killed, it has been
> deprecated for years; killing it would force developers to fix it
> and would help to identify unmaintained drivers...
I don't see why we should break a bunch of drivers by doing that.
Much better, in my oppinion, to fix the few remaining drivers still
using check_region and *then* kill it. Even unmaintained drivers may
still be useful to a lot of people, no point in just breaking them for
the hell of it.
--
Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-08-29 23:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-29 23:14 Linux-2.6.13 : __check_region is deprecated Stephane Wirtel
2005-08-29 23:21 ` Randy.Dunlap
2005-08-29 23:25 ` Jesper Juhl
2005-08-29 23:28 ` Diego Calleja
2005-08-29 23:34 ` Jesper Juhl [this message]
2005-08-29 23:55 ` Diego Calleja
2005-08-29 23:59 ` Jesper Juhl
2005-08-30 14:28 ` David Hollis
2005-08-30 14:50 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-08-30 15:09 ` Randy.Dunlap
2005-08-30 6:10 ` Stephane Wirtel
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