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From: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
To: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Anupama K Patil <anupamakpatil123@gmail.com>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>,
	linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	skhan@linuxfoundation.org, B K Karthik <bkkarthik@pesu.pes.edu>,
	kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: mark isapnp as obsolete
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2021 15:23:44 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YIlT0KKfT6QaE8mz@unreal> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56ea648f-3742-6dd6-9deb-5f1ba441905f@perex.cz>

On Wed, Apr 28, 2021 at 02:17:00PM +0200, Jaroslav Kysela wrote:
> Dne 28. 04. 21 v 13:11 Greg KH napsal(a):
> > On Wed, Apr 28, 2021 at 04:35:36PM +0530, Anupama K Patil wrote:
> >> isapnp code is very old and according to this link
> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legacy_Plug_and_Play#Specifications
> >> from Wikipedia, even Windows Vista disabled ISA PnP by default.
> >>
> >> This change is in follow up to
> >> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210422180322.7wlyg63kv3n2k6id@ubuntu/T/#u
> >> and https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210424194301.jmsqpycvsm7izbk3@ubuntu/T/#u
> >>
> >> Suggested-by: B K Karthik <bkkarthik@pesu.pes.edu>
> >> Signed-off-by: Anupama K Patil <anupamakpatil123@gmail.com>
> > 
> > Has the maintainer said this is unsupported?
> 
> I've no idea, if there're any users at the time, but there are many drivers
> which depend on this code.

IMHO, this is exactly "Odd fixes" - code not really dead, but not really
alive too.

Thanks

> 
> I'll try to reply to patch threads.
> 
> 						Jaroslav
> 
> -- 
> Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>
> Linux Sound Maintainer; ALSA Project; Red Hat, Inc.

  reply	other threads:[~2021-04-28 12:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-28 11:05 [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: mark isapnp as obsolete Anupama K Patil
2021-04-28 11:11 ` Greg KH
2021-04-28 11:40   ` Anupama K Patil
2021-04-28 11:48     ` Leon Romanovsky
2021-04-28 12:13       ` Anupama K Patil
2021-04-28 12:20         ` Leon Romanovsky
2021-04-28 12:17   ` Jaroslav Kysela
2021-04-28 12:23     ` Leon Romanovsky [this message]
2021-04-28 12:32       ` B K Karthik
2021-04-28 12:37         ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2021-04-29 15:25 ` Greg KH
2021-04-29 15:48   ` B K Karthik

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