From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] delete seven tty headers
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2012 10:19:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120608101935.7b07b13d@pyramind.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1339145808.25798.28.camel@x61.thuisdomein>
On Fri, 08 Jun 2012 10:56:48 +0200
Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl> wrote:
> Commit 51c9d654c2def97827395a7fbfd0c6f865c26544 ("Staging: delete tty
> drivers") left seven headers unused: nothing in the tree includes them
> anymore. Two of those headers were still exported, but since nothing in
> the kernel actually uses the things those two headers provide, that
> seems pointless. Delete these seven tty headers too.
> Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
> 1) cdk.h, comstats.h, istallion.h, and stallion.h are still referenced
> in Documentation/ioctl/ioctl-number.txt and
> Documentation/magic-number.txt. Should those references be deleted too?
Probably - but the fact the ioctl numbers were used needs to remain to
avoid any bad reuses
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-08 9:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-08 8:56 Paul Bolle
2012-06-08 9:19 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2012-06-08 11:00 ` Jiri Slaby
2012-06-08 11:41 ` Paul Bolle
2012-06-08 14:03 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-06-11 12:42 ` Jiri Slaby
2012-06-11 12:53 ` Alan Cox
2012-06-11 23:40 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-06-11 23:42 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
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