Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261269AbUCANuW (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Mar 2004 08:50:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261271AbUCANuW (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Mar 2004 08:50:22 -0500 Received: from node-d-1fcf.a2000.nl ([62.195.31.207]:21123 "EHLO laptop.fenrus.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261269AbUCANuR (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Mar 2004 08:50:17 -0500 Subject: Re: [Swsusp-devel] Re: Dropping CONFIG_PM_DISK? From: Arjan van de Ven Reply-To: arjanv@redhat.com To: Michael Frank Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Micha Feigin , Software suspend , Linux Kernel list In-Reply-To: References: <1ulUA-33w-3@gated-at.bofh.it> <20040229161721.GA16688@hell.org.pl> <20040229162317.GC283@elf.ucw.cz> <20040229213302.GA23719@luna.mooo.com> <1078139361.21578.65.camel@gaston> <1078141191.28288.83.camel@gaston> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-HFaTlLEA5zUqEaN3sQ+q" Organization: Red Hat, Inc. Message-Id: <1078148843.4443.2.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 (1.4.5-7) Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 14:47:23 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1254 Lines: 40 --=-HFaTlLEA5zUqEaN3sQ+q Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > Then one could just drop in a driver from 2.4 and use it. >=20 > People having time to make new "pretty" drivers could > also use this facility for cross checking. I'm sorry but this is a load of bull ;) New kernel revisions come with a new API. If we keep the old one around forever that achieves two things 1) The kernel bloats up=20 2) Nobody puts effort into using the new (better) API A proof of 2 is the scsi error handling; the old one was kept around as compat for the last 5 years and only 2 or 3 drivers bothered to use the new one. --=-HFaTlLEA5zUqEaN3sQ+q Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBAQz7rxULwo51rQBIRAu5VAJ9SYVDFgiEut1nD/77c/tBzwTq7XACePy86 DL3q4iqfK1yKhFWl1ZvdGmA= =UJUd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-HFaTlLEA5zUqEaN3sQ+q-- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/