From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932130AbVKLF31 (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Nov 2005 00:29:27 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932122AbVKLF31 (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Nov 2005 00:29:27 -0500 Received: from palinux.external.hp.com ([192.25.206.14]:32680 "EHLO palinux.hppa") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932117AbVKLF30 (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Nov 2005 00:29:26 -0500 Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 22:29:18 -0700 From: Matthew Wilcox To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Adrian Bunk , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, jonathan@buzzard.org.uk, tlinux-users@linux.toshiba-dme.co.jp, Jaroslav Kysela Subject: Re: [RFC: 2.6 patch] remove ISA legacy functions Message-ID: <20051112052918.GG1658@parisc-linux.org> References: <20051110042857.38b4635b.akpm@osdl.org> <20051111021258.GK5376@stusta.de> <20051110182443.514622ed.akpm@osdl.org> <20051111201849.GP5376@stusta.de> <20051111202005.GQ5376@stusta.de> <20051111203601.GR5376@stusta.de> <20051112045216.GY5376@stusta.de> <437578CD.1080501@pobox.com> <20051112051102.GF1658@parisc-linux.org> <43757D5C.8030308@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <43757D5C.8030308@pobox.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 12:27:56AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Matthew Wilcox wrote: > >On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 12:08:29AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > > >>it's not valid to mark working drivers broken, IMO. > >> > >>Mark them x86-only, perhaps. > > > > > >hp100 works fine on parisc. > > Certainly. The point was, don't mark them broken, limit them to the > arches where they work. I think they work fine everywhere. Adrian wants to remove the API they use. I think this is a bad idea. The drivers should be converted.