From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752831Ab2FKXmK (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Jun 2012 19:42:10 -0400 Received: from mail-pz0-f46.google.com ([209.85.210.46]:39017 "EHLO mail-pz0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751069Ab2FKXmI (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Jun 2012 19:42:08 -0400 Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 16:42:04 -0700 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: Alan Cox Cc: Jiri Slaby , Arnd Bergmann , Paul Bolle , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] delete seven tty headers Message-ID: <20120611234204.GA17383@kroah.com> References: <1339145808.25798.28.camel@x61.thuisdomein> <4FD1DB30.80307@suse.cz> <1339155706.25798.55.camel@x61.thuisdomein> <201206081403.16608.arnd@arndb.de> <4FD5E7B8.1020502@suse.cz> <20120611135306.537757d2@pyramind.ukuu.org.uk> <20120611234033.GB17313@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120611234033.GB17313@kroah.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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