From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268132AbUIWBxd (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Sep 2004 21:53:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268137AbUIWBxd (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Sep 2004 21:53:33 -0400 Received: from mproxy.gmail.com ([216.239.56.247]:31286 "EHLO mproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268132AbUIWBxb (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Sep 2004 21:53:31 -0400 Message-ID: <21d7e99704092218531ec19260@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 11:53:23 +1000 From: Dave Airlie Reply-To: Dave Airlie To: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH] mark inter_module_* deprecated Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20040919101337.GA5910@lst.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <20040919101337.GA5910@lst.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 12:13:38 +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > These had been officially deprecated since Rusty's module rewrite, but > never got the __deprecated marker. The only remaining users are drm and > mtd, so we'll get some warnings for common builds. But maybe that's the > only way to get the drm people to fix the mess :) > It'll piss a few people off but it won't create time, the only thing stopping the drm from getting this stuff out of the way is time, there are two uses in the DRM, one is the agp one, this is easy, Rusty posted a patch for this and I'll probably merge it up after the next kernel release.. the other use requries moving to some sort of DRM in-kernel core, again I'd rather do this at the start of a kernel release cycle as it'll require a bit of testing to make sure we don't break anything.... Most of this stuff is easier if we weren't waiting on Alans vga class support driver to turn up as without it the DRM CVS is blocked, and no DRM developer really wants to start hacking on the vga class stuff as we don't believe it is where our time is best spent until Alan gets code merged into the kernel and gets the fb guys to convert all their drivers... I've already got a patch for converting the DRM to a fixed up version of his last patch... Dave.