From: Thomas Winischhofer <thomas@winischhofer.net>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
ak@muc.de, hch@lst.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] {,un}register_ioctl32_conversion should have been removed last month
Date: Tue, 03 May 2005 09:30:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4277287E.4040003@winischhofer.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050503003959.GQ3592@stusta.de>
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Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 05:30:52PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
>>Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> wrote:
>>
>>>This removal should have happened last month.
>>
>>drivers/usb/misc/sisusbvga/sisusb.c will use these functions if someone
>>defines SISUSB_OLD_CONFIG_COMPAT, so we need to agree to zap that code
>>before I can merge this upstream.
Why on earth should anyone #define something with "SISUSB" in the
beginning, on a level that might be available in a usb driver?
>
> That's not a problem.
>
>
> Quoting drivers/usb/misc/sisusbvga/sisusb.h:
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT
> #if LINUX_VERSION_CODE <= KERNEL_VERSION(2,6,10)
> #include <linux/ioctl32.h>
> #define SISUSB_OLD_CONFIG_COMPAT
> #else
> #define SISUSB_NEW_CONFIG_COMPAT
> #endif
> #endif
>
>
> I decided not to drop the SISUSB_OLD_CONFIG_COMPAT code in my patch
> because it seems Thomas is sharing this code between different kernel
> versions, and a removal might make his life harder for no big win.
Exactly. Thanks, Adrian.
Thomas
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-05-03 7:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-05-02 1:45 [2.6 patch] {,un}register_ioctl32_conversion should have been removed last month Adrian Bunk
2005-05-02 16:09 ` Andi Kleen
2005-05-02 16:20 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-05-02 16:34 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-05-02 17:16 ` Andi Kleen
2005-05-03 0:30 ` Andrew Morton
2005-05-03 0:39 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-05-03 7:30 ` Thomas Winischhofer [this message]
2005-05-03 14:46 ` Andi Kleen
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