From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755509AbYGWSzX (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:55:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753353AbYGWSzF (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:55:05 -0400 Received: from harold.telenet-ops.be ([195.130.133.65]:49126 "EHLO harold.telenet-ops.be" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752649AbYGWSzE (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:55:04 -0400 Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:55:01 +0200 (CEST) From: Geert Uytterhoeven To: Alan Cox cc: Stephen Rothwell , linux-next@vger.kernel.org, Linux/m68k , Linux Kernel Development Subject: Re: linux-next: ttydev tree build failure In-Reply-To: <20080723172837.3d784d85@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Message-ID: References: <20080723171743.1436cf2a.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> <20080723154610.348ffc07@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20080723164731.00c163f1@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20080723172837.3d784d85@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Alan Cox wrote: > > Update all drivers when making core tty infrastructure changes? > > Thanks! > > I don't have an Amiga with that board, I don't have an obscure VME 68K > board. The changes required at this point would be tricky to verify > without hardware, and the upcoming changes will require significant > changes to all the hardware drivers, which will need someone to actually > maintain the drivers, or to drop them. IC, testing/maintaining non-trival changes is a different situation. But it would still be nice to announce such removals/breakings in advance, cfr. Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt. At least we knew the old NCR53C9x core was going away, taken with it all drivers depending on it... Anyone who cares about these drivers (ser_a2232 and vme_scc, perhaps others?)? Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds