From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.1-mm5
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 08:37:04 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040120083704.482f860c.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040120111441.A14570@infradead.org>
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:
>
> Any reason you keep CardServices-compatibility-layer.patch around?
err, it's my way of reminding myself that the issue isn't fully resolved.
Smarter people would use a pencil and a notebook or something.
> Having a compat layer for old driver around just for some architectures,
> thus having drivers that only compile on some for no deeper reasons sounds
> like an incredibly bad idea. Especially when that API is not used by any
> intree driver and only in -mm ;)
Yes, we were concerned about avoiding breaking the various random
out-of-tree pcmcia drivers which people use. Russell would prefer that if
we _do_ have a compat layer it should be implemented in a different manner.
But we're all fairly uncertain that the compat layer is needed - converting
a driver is a pretty simple exercise, and Davd Hinds doesn't intend to
maintain his drivers into 2.6.
So the compatibility layer will probably go away soon, unless something
happens to bring it back into consideration.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-20 16:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-20 8:05 2.6.1-mm5 Andrew Morton
2004-01-20 10:51 ` 2.6.1-mm5 dies booting, possibly network related Helge Hafting
2004-01-20 11:14 ` 2.6.1-mm5 Christoph Hellwig
2004-01-20 16:37 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-01-20 11:35 ` 2.6.1-mm5 Christoph Hellwig
2004-01-20 13:45 ` [PATCH] missing space in printk message (was Re: 2.6.1-mm5) Sean Neakums
2004-01-20 13:54 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2004-01-20 14:09 ` Sean Neakums
2004-01-20 16:08 ` 2.6.1-mm5 (compile stats) John Cherry
2004-01-20 21:57 ` Adrian Bunk
2004-01-20 22:15 ` John Cherry
2004-01-20 22:27 ` Adrian Bunk
2004-01-20 22:50 ` John Cherry
2004-01-20 18:30 ` 2.6.1-mm5 Mike Fedyk
2004-01-20 18:36 ` 2.6.1-mm5 Andrew Morton
2004-01-21 0:10 ` I2C sensors error (Re: 2.6.1-mm5) Zack Winkles
2004-01-21 0:34 ` Greg KH
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