From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932155AbVH3Oas (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Aug 2005 10:30:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932156AbVH3Oas (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Aug 2005 10:30:48 -0400 Received: from ms-smtp-04-smtplb.tampabay.rr.com ([65.32.5.134]:61937 "EHLO ms-smtp-04.tampabay.rr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932155AbVH3Oar (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Aug 2005 10:30:47 -0400 Subject: Re: Linux-2.6.13 : __check_region is deprecated From: David Hollis To: Diego Calleja Cc: Jesper Juhl , stephane.wirtel@belgacom.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20050830015513.62ee2c0c.diegocg@gmail.com> References: <20050829231417.GB2736@localhost.localdomain> <20050830012813.7737f6f6.diegocg@gmail.com> <9a8748490508291634416a18bc@mail.gmail.com> <20050830015513.62ee2c0c.diegocg@gmail.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-XcxZeWjr725S5q2FrR6H" Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 10:28:37 -0400 Message-Id: <1125412117.4801.18.camel@dhollis-lnx.sunera.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.3.7 (2.3.7-3) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --=-XcxZeWjr725S5q2FrR6H Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 01:55 +0200, Diego Calleja wrote: > El Tue, 30 Aug 2005 01:34:25 +0200, > Jesper Juhl escribi=C3=B3: >=20 > > I don't see why we should break a bunch of drivers by doing that. > > Much better, in my oppinion, to fix the few remaining drivers still > > using check_region and *then* kill it. Even unmaintained drivers may >=20 > I'd usually agree with you, but check_region has been deprecated for so m= any > time; I was just wondering myself if people will bother to fix the remain= ing > drivers without some "incentive"=20 Shouldn't it be (or have been) added to the Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt then so it could be deprecated and removed through the proper mechanisms. --=20 David Hollis --=-XcxZeWjr725S5q2FrR6H Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBDFG0VxasLqOyGHncRAsGUAJkBmBSIXtJRrndHgCCsqO+8AHB0EgCePmq9 oExsuqK3+mihXI6e2PmwR+I= =a+hv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-XcxZeWjr725S5q2FrR6H--