Re: [RFC: 2.6 patch] remove ISA legacy functions

2005-11-15 Thread Al Viro
On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 01:48:20PM +, Al Viro wrote: > On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 10:29:18PM -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > 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. > > They are - I'll

Re: [RFC: 2.6 patch] remove ISA legacy functions

2005-11-12 Thread Al Viro
On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 10:29:18PM -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > 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. They are - I'll send patches later today... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the

Re: [RFC: 2.6 patch] remove ISA legacy functions

2005-11-11 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 05:52:16AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > This patch removes the ISA legacy functions that are deprecated since > kernel 2.4 and that aren't available on all architectures. > > The 7 drivers that were still using this obsolete API are now marked > as BROKEN. NACK. Al has pa

Re: [RFC: 2.6 patch] remove ISA legacy functions

2005-11-11 Thread Matthew Wilcox
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. > > Certainl

Re: [RFC: 2.6 patch] remove ISA legacy functions

2005-11-11 Thread Jeff Garzik
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.

Re: [RFC: 2.6 patch] remove ISA legacy functions

2005-11-11 Thread Matthew Wilcox
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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More ma

Re: [RFC: 2.6 patch] remove ISA legacy functions

2005-11-11 Thread Jeff Garzik
Adrian Bunk wrote: This patch removes the ISA legacy functions that are deprecated since kernel 2.4 and that aren't available on all architectures. The 7 drivers that were still using this obsolete API are now marked as BROKEN. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> it's not valid t

[RFC: 2.6 patch] remove ISA legacy functions

2005-11-11 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch removes the ISA legacy functions that are deprecated since kernel 2.4 and that aren't available on all architectures. The 7 drivers that were still using this obsolete API are now marked as BROKEN. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Documentation/DocBook/deviceiobo