From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932163AbVH3OuZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Aug 2005 10:50:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932165AbVH3OuZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Aug 2005 10:50:25 -0400 Received: from emailhub.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:58378 "HELO mailout.stusta.mhn.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S932163AbVH3OuY (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Aug 2005 10:50:24 -0400 Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 16:50:22 +0200 From: Adrian Bunk To: David Hollis Cc: Diego Calleja , Jesper Juhl , stephane.wirtel@belgacom.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux-2.6.13 : __check_region is deprecated Message-ID: <20050830145022.GA3708@stusta.de> References: <20050829231417.GB2736@localhost.localdomain> <20050830012813.7737f6f6.diegocg@gmail.com> <9a8748490508291634416a18bc@mail.gmail.com> <20050830015513.62ee2c0c.diegocg@gmail.com> <1125412117.4801.18.camel@dhollis-lnx.sunera.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <1125412117.4801.18.camel@dhollis-lnx.sunera.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 10:28:37AM -0400, David Hollis wrote: > On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 01:55 +0200, Diego Calleja wrote: > > El Tue, 30 Aug 2005 01:34:25 +0200, > > Jesper Juhl escribió: > > > > > 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 > > > > I'd usually agree with you, but check_region has been deprecated for so many > > time; I was just wondering myself if people will bother to fix the remaining > > drivers without some "incentive" > > Shouldn't it be (or have been) added to the > Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt then so it could be > deprecated and removed through the proper mechanisms. Why? Although there is a possible (but not very likely) race condition the drivers usually work fine (they shouldn't work worse than at the time when they were added). > David Hollis cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed