From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@mellanox.co.il>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>,
mingo@elte.hu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, pavel@suse.cz,
discuss@x86-64.org, gordon.jin@intel.com, greg@kroah.com,
VANDROVE@vc.cvut.cz,
alsa-devel <alsa-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] macros to detect existance of unlocked_ioctl and ioctl_compat
Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 10:22:21 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1105024942.13396.4.camel@krustophenia.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050106151429.GA19155@infradead.org>
On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 15:14 +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 04:09:42PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > I would agree that it shouldn't be used for in tree code, but for
> > out of tree code it is rather useful. There are other such feature macros
> > for major driver interface changes too (e.g. in the network stack).
>
> Which is the only place doing it. We had this discussion in the past
> (lastone I revolve Greg vetoed it). We simply shouldn't clutter our
> headers for the sake of out of tree drivers - with LINUX_VERSION_CODE
> we've already implemented a mechanism for out of tree drivers.
>
> p.s. droppe alsa-devel from Cc because of the braindead moderation policy.
>
Um, alsa-devel is not moderated, we accept posts from non subscribers.
Where do you think all the spam in our archive comes from?
Lee
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-01-06 15:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20041215065650.GM27225@wotan.suse.de>
[not found] ` <20041215074635.GC11501@mellanox.co.il>
[not found] ` <s5hbrcvqv7r.wl@alsa2.suse.de>
2004-12-15 18:30 ` unregister_ioctl32_conversion and modules. ioctl32 revisited Lee Revell
2004-12-15 19:34 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2004-12-16 5:03 ` [discuss] " Andi Kleen
2004-12-16 7:53 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-12-16 8:09 ` Andi Kleen
2004-12-16 8:25 ` Andrew Morton
2004-12-16 8:30 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2004-12-16 8:38 ` Andi Kleen
2004-12-17 1:43 ` [PATCH] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2004-12-16 16:08 ` Christoph Hellwig
[not found] ` <20050103011113.6f6c8f44.akpm@osdl.org>
2005-01-05 14:40 ` [PATCH] deprecate (un)register_ioctl32_conversion Michael S. Tsirkin
2005-01-05 14:46 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-01-05 15:03 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2005-01-05 15:11 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-01-05 21:33 ` Andrew Morton
2005-01-06 14:41 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2005-01-06 14:55 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-01-06 15:22 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2005-01-06 15:30 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-01-06 15:56 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2005-01-05 15:19 ` Andi Kleen
2005-01-05 15:55 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-01-05 18:23 ` Takashi Iwai
2005-01-05 21:34 ` Andrew Morton
2005-01-06 14:06 ` [PATCH] macros to detect existance of unlocked_ioctl and ioctl_compat Michael S. Tsirkin
2005-01-06 14:53 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-01-06 15:09 ` Andi Kleen
[not found] ` <20050106151429.GA19155@infradead.org>
2005-01-06 15:22 ` Lee Revell [this message]
[not found] ` <20050106153147.GB19324@infradead.org>
[not found] ` <1105025938.14990.4.camel@krustophenia.net>
[not found] ` <20050106154327.GA19781@infradead.org>
2005-01-06 16:21 ` new home for alsa-devel archive? (was Re: [PATCH] macros to detect existance of unlocked_ioctl and ioctl_compat) Lee Revell
2005-01-06 17:55 ` new home for alsa-devel archive? Måns Rullgård
2005-01-07 4:26 ` Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
2005-01-06 16:35 ` [PATCH] macros to detect existance of unlocked_ioctl and ioctl_compat Petr Vandrovec
2005-01-06 16:39 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-01-06 16:57 ` Andi Kleen
2005-01-06 17:26 ` Petr Vandrovec
2005-01-06 22:34 ` Pavel Machek
2005-01-12 20:36 ` [PATCH] fix: macros to detect existance of unlocked_ioctl and compat_ioctl Michael S. Tsirkin
2005-01-12 21:29 ` Greg KH
2005-01-12 21:43 ` Andi Kleen
2005-01-12 22:52 ` Greg KH
2005-01-12 23:10 ` Andrew Morton
2005-01-12 23:16 ` Greg KH
[not found] ` <20050119213818.55b14bb0.akpm@osdl.org>
2005-01-21 0:09 ` security hook missing in compat ioctl in 2.6.11-rc1-mm2 Michael S. Tsirkin
2005-01-21 0:10 ` Chris Wright
2005-01-21 1:26 ` [PATCH] compat ioctl security hook fixup Chris Wright
2005-01-21 4:19 ` Andi Kleen
2005-01-21 5:51 ` Chris Wright
2005-01-21 6:11 ` Andi Kleen
2005-01-21 6:35 ` [PATCH] compat ioctl security hook fixup (take2) Chris Wright
[not found] ` <20050106002240.00ac4611.akpm@osdl.org>
2005-01-06 14:51 ` [PATCH] fget_light/fput_light for ioctls Michael S. Tsirkin
2005-01-06 16:18 ` [PATCH] fget_light/fput_light for ioctls (fixed) Michael S. Tsirkin
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