From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [patch 20/28] drivers/message/fusion/linux_compat.h Removal of old code Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 20:22:32 -0400 Message-ID: <451872C8.7000400@garzik.org> References: <664A4EBB07F29743873A87CF62C26D7034FA42@NAMAIL4.ad.lsil.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:34009 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751792AbWIZAWk (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Sep 2006 20:22:40 -0400 In-Reply-To: <664A4EBB07F29743873A87CF62C26D7034FA42@NAMAIL4.ad.lsil.com> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: "Moore, Eric" Cc: akpm@osdl.org, James.Bottomley@steeleye.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com Moore, Eric wrote: > However pls don't remove this file from the tree. Why? That's against the general kernel policy... As an example, when maintaining libata for 2.4 kernels as well as 2.6 kernels, I had a libata-compat.h file, and always just patched the include into the kernel source at the same time I patched in the libata-compat.h contents. Jeff