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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:

      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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