From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: "Kilau, Scott" <Scott_Kilau@digi.com>
Cc: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>,
"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"Eng.Linux" <Eng.Linux@digi.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] Remove support for the orphaned, obsolete Digi EPCA driver.
Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2007 16:05:08 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070702160508.3d34cb90@the-village.bc.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <335DD0B75189FB428E5C32680089FB9F012DD309@mtk-sms-mail01.digi.com>
> (Probably the biggest obstacle, was the extra ioctls to
> manage "Digi" specific things, and other hooks that are
> simply not permitted in in-kernel code)
Oh please ignore the ioctl bigots, I think they've also mostly gone away
and accepted they lost the argument to the real world anyway/
> Trust me, I *know* the pain of keeping the driver out-of-tree
> with the constant flux in the kernel API, and I understand that
> most people here say its completely self-inflicted...
>
> But massively crippling the driver from a usability POV,
> just simply isn't an option.
Sure
Alan
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-02 14:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-02 13:14 Robert P. J. Day
2007-07-02 13:46 ` Alan Cox
2007-07-02 13:48 ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-07-02 14:15 ` Alan Cox
2007-07-02 14:20 ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-07-02 14:56 ` Kilau, Scott
2007-07-02 15:05 ` Alan Cox [this message]
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