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From: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
To: Stephane Wirtel <stephane.wirtel@belgacom.net>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.6.13 - 1/3 - Remove the deprecated function __check_region
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 19:17:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9a874849050830101743c421db@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050830170502.GA10694@localhost.localdomain>

On 8/30/05, Stephane Wirtel <stephane.wirtel@belgacom.net> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Here is the first patch for kernel 2.6.13 from Linus tree.
> 

Take it easy. Don't kill __check_region() unless you first convert all
users of it.
And by removing __check_region() you've just broken check_region() -
There are still some drivers left that use check_region() and there's
no reason to break them.

The right approach is to identify all users of
check_region()/__check_region(), then submit patches to convert them
to use request_region instead. *Then*, when there are no more
in-kernel users left, submit patches to remove the deprecated
functions.

-- 
Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-08-30 17:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-30 17:05 [PATCH] 2.6.13 - 1/3 - Remove the deprecated function __check_region Stephane Wirtel
2005-08-30 17:16 ` Stephane Wirtel
2005-08-30 17:17 ` Jesper Juhl [this message]
2005-08-30 17:21   ` Stephane Wirtel
2005-08-30 17:37     ` Jesper Juhl
2005-08-30 17:54       ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2005-08-30 19:03         ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2005-08-30 19:23           ` Jesper Juhl
2005-08-30 17:58       ` Jesper Juhl

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