From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161058AbWJZWbk (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Oct 2006 18:31:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161448AbWJZWbk (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Oct 2006 18:31:40 -0400 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.170]:50892 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161058AbWJZWbj (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Oct 2006 18:31:39 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=BH5M5jxd4l/SMxT+X+dglKDXaJ8xk9Lv0ZWA+EfswHlvJS7XxmNOi3oOsK34hP1SHTWTxGcxZWyu2NkHKzfjotC8sVZlI7DMBmmD+plTavMpwKnqYadJD0ilqY+cmE4drmHpa/yxWT58X5GJWofpyUbEaUQ4P4sxqop0ig15e6g= Message-ID: <9a8748490610261531s539b0861t621e95c785b53d7@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 00:31:37 +0200 From: "Jesper Juhl" To: "Adrian Bunk" Subject: Re: removing drivers and ISA support? [Was: Char: correct pci_get_device changes] Cc: "Jiri Slaby" , "Alan Cox" , "Linux kernel mailing list" In-Reply-To: <20061026222525.GP27968@stusta.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <4540F79C.7070705@gmail.com> <20061026222525.GP27968@stusta.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 27/10/06, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 07:59:56PM +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote: > >... > > And what about (E)ISA support. When converting to pci probing, should be ISA bus > > support preserved (how much is ISA used in present)? -- it makes code ugly and long. > > There seem to be still many running 486 machines - and only the last 486 > boards also had PCI slots. > > While deprecating OSS drivers, I got emails from people still using some > of the ISA cards. > > And there are even Pentium 4 boards with ISA slots available. > Not to mention many embedded boards - many pc104 boards use ISA, just to mention one type. -- Jesper Juhl Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please http://www.expita.com/nomime.html