Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030333AbVKHWVi (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Nov 2005 17:21:38 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965227AbVKHWVi (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Nov 2005 17:21:38 -0500 Received: from mail.fh-wedel.de ([213.39.232.198]:29407 "EHLO moskovskaya.fh-wedel.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965149AbVKHWVh (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Nov 2005 17:21:37 -0500 Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2005 23:21:27 +0100 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn?= Engel To: Thomas Gleixner Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" , linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, dwmw2@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Arnd Bergmann , Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/25] mtd: move ioctl32 code to mtdchar.c Message-ID: <20051108222127.GA16542@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> References: <20051105162650.620266000@b551138y.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> <20051105162712.921102000@b551138y.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> <20051108105923.GA31446@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> <20051108183339.GB31446@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> <1131476269.18108.195.camel@tglx.tec.linutronix.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <1131476269.18108.195.camel@tglx.tec.linutronix.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 818 Lines: 23 On Tue, 8 November 2005 19:57:49 +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > The code _is_ ugly and ioctls are out of fashion, but your "remove it" > request is just silly as long as you dont provide a reasonable > alternative access to those bits. You may have noticed the missing patch and figured that it was not a formal request for removal. Still, I'll be happy when it's gone and am also happy that mtdchar mess is not spread over yet another file anymore. Thanks, Arnd. J?rn -- Mac is for working, Linux is for Networking, Windows is for Solitaire! -- stolen from dc - 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/