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From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>
To: Florian Lohoff <flo@rfc822.org>
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Subject: Re: broken devfs-support in SGI Zilog8530 serial driver
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On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 09:29:57PM +0200, Florian Lohoff wrote:

> > Could you commit that too?
> > 
> 
> I thought the callout devices are officially "dead" and should disappear
> "Real Soon Now(tm)" as beeing a locking hell and unneeded.

Really Soon Now doesn't mean what you want it to mean in a world that is
driven by backward compatibility ...

  Ralf