From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932083AbVH2XzV (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Aug 2005 19:55:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932085AbVH2XzU (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Aug 2005 19:55:20 -0400 Received: from zproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.162.202]:62392 "EHLO zproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932083AbVH2XzU convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Aug 2005 19:55:20 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=J5b03hXwJ5GIKYdJsA8Yl1LPs5dtlMZNpYWRDN3zWSQ5UKbDn78v2pL9mP313MdIOX5xCZ3Tf7Liv8zitPV0tPx/9wZLRJeKs4wlUT1Fd4qsWQ8VuFupOvCFWZOWvz6gIyKsYF8blUQz345zV6H9Tziqlklq/RQ3zxvE7kmlApU= Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 01:55:13 +0200 From: Diego Calleja To: Jesper Juhl Cc: stephane.wirtel@belgacom.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux-2.6.13 : __check_region is deprecated Message-Id: <20050830015513.62ee2c0c.diegocg@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <9a8748490508291634416a18bc@mail.gmail.com> References: <20050829231417.GB2736@localhost.localdomain> <20050830012813.7737f6f6.diegocg@gmail.com> <9a8748490508291634416a18bc@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.1.1+svn (GTK+ 2.8.2; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org El Tue, 30 Aug 2005 01:34:25 +0200, Jesper Juhl escribió: > 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 I'd usually agree with you, but check_region has been deprecated for so many time; I was just wondering myself if people will bother to fix the remaining drivers without some "incentive"