Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757598AbYB1CWM (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Feb 2008 21:22:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751054AbYB1CV4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Feb 2008 21:21:56 -0500 Received: from foo.birdnet.se ([213.88.146.6]:34209 "HELO foo.birdnet.se" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1750802AbYB1CVz (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Feb 2008 21:21:55 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 3667 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Wed, 27 Feb 2008 21:21:55 EST Message-ID: <20080228002457.30489.qmail@cdy.org> Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 01:24:57 +0100 From: Peter Stuge To: Adrian Bunk , Andrew Morton , linux-pcmcia@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Dominik Brodowski Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] the long overdue pcmcia_ioctl.c removal Mail-Followup-To: Adrian Bunk , Andrew Morton , linux-pcmcia@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Dominik Brodowski References: <20080213213115.GW3383@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> <20080218050133.23454db1.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080227181303.GB29269@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> <20080227204407.GA10455@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080227204407.GA10455@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 687 Lines: 19 (Really cross-post like this?) On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 08:44:07PM +0000, Russell King wrote: > TBH I've given up trying to fight this continue "lets remove these > IOCTLs which no one uses" crap. Obviously, _I_ use them. I suppose critical mass or other powers that be have decided they aren't good enough. If your userspace will never change, settling on a kernel as well shouldn't be too big a deal. Closed source sure sucks. //Peter -- 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/