From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] delete seven tty headers
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 16:42:04 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120611234204.GA17383@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120611234033.GB17313@kroah.com>
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 04:40:33PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 01:53:06PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > I agree (I wrote I doubt there are any users at all). But I would prefer
> > > going through the deprecation phase (adding a #warning) anyway. Removing
> > > the headers completely in a year, or maybe sooner is OK then.
> >
> > I really see no point. Distributions are going to build against a set of
> > headers generated from a kernel, once at the time the distribution is
> > first assembled (eg the kernel-headers package in Fedora).
>
> I agree, I'll take this patch now as the drivers are gone, the headers
> should be as well.
Although, as this originally happened in 3.1, I think it's safe to wait
for 3.6 for this patch to go in, no rush for 3.5.
thanks,
greg k-h
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-11 23:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-08 8:56 [PATCH] delete seven tty headers Paul Bolle
2012-06-08 9:19 ` Alan Cox
2012-06-08 11:00 ` Jiri Slaby
2012-06-08 11:41 ` Paul Bolle
2012-06-08 14:03 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-06-11 12:42 ` Jiri Slaby
2012-06-11 12:53 ` Alan Cox
2012-06-11 23:40 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-06-11 23:42 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
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