From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, jonathan@buzzard.org.uk,
tlinux-users@tce.toshiba-dme.co.jp,
Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
Subject: Re: [RFC: 2.6 patch] remove ISA legacy functions
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 22:29:18 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051112052918.GG1658@parisc-linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43757D5C.8030308@pobox.com>
On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 12:27:56AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> >On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 12:08:29AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> >
> >>it's not valid to mark working drivers broken, IMO.
> >>
> >>Mark them x86-only, perhaps.
> >
> >
> >hp100 works fine on parisc.
>
> Certainly. The point was, don't mark them broken, limit them to the
> arches where they work.
I think they work fine everywhere. Adrian wants to remove the API they
use.
I think this is a bad idea. The drivers should be converted.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-12 5:29 UTC|newest]
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2005-11-12 4:52 ` [RFC: 2.6 patch] remove ISA legacy functions Adrian Bunk
2005-11-12 5:08 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-11-12 5:11 ` Matthew Wilcox
2005-11-12 5:27 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-11-12 5:29 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2005-11-12 13:48 ` Al Viro
2005-11-16 3:56 ` Al Viro
2005-11-12 7:12 ` Christoph Hellwig
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