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Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2012 10:19:35 +0100
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] delete seven tty headers
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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