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Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2011 20:19:11 +0200 (EET)
From: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@iki.fi>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] staging: xgifb: remove private ioctls
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Hi,

On Wed, 2 Mar 2011, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 11:50:12PM +0200, Aaro Koskinen wrote:
>> Drop the badly defined and broken private ioctl interface. Since the
>> driver is in staging, and some of the ioctls are clearly unsafe or not
>> even working, it's unlikely that there are any users.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@iki.fi>
>
> Is this just a RFC, or do you want me to apply this patch?

I wasn't sure if we should try to retain all the interfaces the driver
provides. But if there are no objections, please apply, it will help a
lot with further cleanups.

A.