Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758650AbYB1JUH (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Feb 2008 04:20:07 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754783AbYB1JTv (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Feb 2008 04:19:51 -0500 Received: from caramon.arm.linux.org.uk ([78.32.30.218]:48733 "EHLO caramon.arm.linux.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754723AbYB1JTt (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Feb 2008 04:19:49 -0500 Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 09:15:36 +0000 From: Russell King 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 Message-ID: <20080228091536.GA23304@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> 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> <20080228002457.30489.qmail@cdy.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080228002457.30489.qmail@cdy.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 986 Lines: 25 On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 01:24:57AM +0100, Peter Stuge wrote: > (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. It's not closed source, but a case of "the machine with the CVS on was taken down a couple of months after the project ended". -- Russell King Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of: -- 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/