Re: so what *is* obsolete and removable?

Alan Cox
2007-04-17T15:30:52Z

On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 17:03:58 +0200
Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc> wrote:

> On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 14:40:54 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > If the obsolete tag is to be removed then it needs a formal maintainer,
> > all the obsolete interface usage cleaning up and the like otherwise at
> > some point in a clean up it is going to end up breaking and migrating to
> > && BROKEN as well.
>
> I'm not sure I understand. What do you mean by "obsolete interface
> usage"? What sort of cleaning up needs to be done? What sort of
> breakage do you anticipate in the event of a clean up?

Things like:

pci_find_device
pci_find_bus

interruptible_sleep_on
sleep_on

lock_kernel
unlock_kernel

and the drivers that i4l uses (eg hisax) need switching to the proper
pci_module interfaces to handle hot plug.