Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 20:13:03 +0200
From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@brodo.de>, linux-pcmcia@lists.infradead.org,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] the long overdue pcmcia_ioctl.c removal
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On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 05:01:33AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 23:31:15 +0200 Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> wrote:
> 
> > pcmcia_ioctl.c was scheduled for removal in 2005, and it has a 
> > deprecation printk() since 2005 (sic).
> > 
> > This patch contains the long overdue removal and the cleanups that are 
> > now possible.
> 
> I've had this in -mm for ages, with a note that Dominik had a problem with
> it.  Maybe there are subtleties here, dunno.

This removal has bells and whistles and printk() since 2005...

Dominik, what exactly is the problem why we can't remove it now?

cu
Adrian

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