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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove 2.2 compat cruft from sound/
Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 11:38:57 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030519113856.A4282@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0305191041540.21997-100000@pnote.perex-int.cz>; from perex@suse.cz on Mon, May 19, 2003 at 10:44:46AM +0200

On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 10:44:46AM +0200, Jaroslav Kysela wrote:
> We still support the 2.2 kernel. We are trying to separate this 
> "compatibility" code to another location, but in some cases, it is 
> difficult. Please, make changes only for /sound/oss tree. Thank you.

I sterongly disagree.  As part of having your code in mainline you
have to keep it readable.  Neither the compat mess nor the typedef
abuse help on this.


  reply	other threads:[~2003-05-19  9:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-05-18 16:15 [PATCH] remove 2.2 compat cruft from sound/ Christoph Hellwig
2003-05-19  8:44 ` Jaroslav Kysela
2003-05-19  9:38   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2003-05-19  9:42     ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-05-19 10:15       ` Jaroslav Kysela

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