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From: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-pcmcia@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Dominik Brodowski <linux@brodo.de>
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] the long overdue pcmcia_ioctl.c removal
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 09:15:36 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080228091536.GA23304@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080228002457.30489.qmail@cdy.org>
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 01:24:57AM +0100, Peter Stuge wrote:
> (Really cross-post like this?)
>
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 08:44:07PM +0000, Russell King wrote:
> > TBH I've given up trying to fight this continue "lets remove these
> > IOCTLs which no one uses" crap. Obviously, _I_ use them.
>
> I suppose critical mass or other powers that be have decided they
> aren't good enough. If your userspace will never change, settling
> on a kernel as well shouldn't be too big a deal.
>
> Closed source sure sucks.
It's not closed source, but a case of "the machine with the CVS on was
taken down a couple of months after the project ended".
--
Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of:
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-28 9:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-13 21:31 [2.6 patch] the long overdue pcmcia_ioctl.c removal Adrian Bunk
2008-02-18 13:01 ` Andrew Morton
2008-02-27 18:13 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-02-27 20:44 ` Russell King
2008-02-28 0:24 ` Peter Stuge
2008-02-28 9:15 ` Russell King [this message]
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