Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751135AbWAUIwk (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Jan 2006 03:52:40 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751190AbWAUIwk (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Jan 2006 03:52:40 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:54988 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751135AbWAUIwj (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Jan 2006 03:52:39 -0500 Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] the scheduled removal of the obsolete raw driver From: Arjan van de Ven To: Andrew Morton Cc: Davej@redhat.com, Adrian Bunk , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Badari Pulavarty , "Chen, Kenneth W" In-Reply-To: <20060118194103.5c569040.akpm@osdl.org> References: <20060119030251.GG19398@stusta.de> <20060118194103.5c569040.akpm@osdl.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2006 09:52:27 +0100 Message-Id: <1137833547.2978.7.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 751 Lines: 19 On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 19:41 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > > Let's do the scheduled removal of the obsolete raw driver in 2.6.17. > > > > heh. I was just thinking that I hadn't heard from Badari and Ken in a while. > > I doubt if this'll fly. We're stuck with it. One thing we can do is ask the distributions to stop shipping raw first, to see what the fallout is (and to give it as a sign that it's an obsolete interface). Then a year or two after that.... - 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/