From: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] deprecate pci_module_init
Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 11:20:27 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041103192027.GA25543@taniwha.stupidest.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41892DE3.5040402@pobox.com>
On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 02:13:39PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> There is a 2.4 version of module_param().
2.4 what?
> The semantics of pci_module_init() versus pci_register_driver() are
> different across 2.4/2.6.
I actually didn't realize this... (in truth I didn't think about it).
Is this explained anywhere?
> If you deprecate pci_module_init(), you are breaking drivers which
> right now can be ported to 2.4 with a simple cp(1).
> It's just downright silly to deprecate the API that is used most
> heavily in drivers.
Sure, I'll buy that.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-03 19:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-03 9:10 Chris Wedgwood
2004-11-03 17:46 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-11-03 19:07 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-11-03 19:13 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-11-03 19:20 ` Chris Wedgwood [this message]
2004-11-04 0:21 ` Greg KH
2004-11-04 0:37 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-11-04 0:51 ` Greg KH
2004-11-04 0:53 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-11-04 1:12 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-11-03 20:33 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-11-03 20:49 ` Chris Wedgwood
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