Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755732AbYJHUMn (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Oct 2008 16:12:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753612AbYJHUMf (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Oct 2008 16:12:35 -0400 Received: from earthlight.etchedpixels.co.uk ([81.2.110.250]:34009 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753087AbYJHUMe (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Oct 2008 16:12:34 -0400 Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 21:12:32 +0100 From: Alan Cox To: "Richard A. Holden III" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Richard A. Holden III" Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/10] ixj: Cleanup dead and duplicate code Message-ID: <20081008211232.3a14b4ea@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.5.0 (GTK+ 2.12.12; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Organization: Red Hat UK Cyf., Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SL4 1TE, Y Deyrnas Gyfunol. Cofrestrwyd yng Nghymru a Lloegr o'r rhif cofrestru 3798903 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1038 Lines: 24 On Wed, 8 Oct 2008 14:41:35 -0600 "Richard A. Holden III" wrote: > Cleanup dead code and duplicate code to start simplifying the ixj > driver, currently it is around 10000 lines long. This has been built, > but I don't have the hardware to test, most changes were fairly > mechanical. It needs doing but you need to be very very careful and I don't think this is a good idea to merge untested because if you misprogram the SLIC you can blow the card up, permanently,magic smoke gone, dead, defunct. It's one card where we really really don't want to make untested changes. That said if you've got an old box with an ISA slot somewhere, and a postal address you can have the old ISA card that Quicknet provided for testing - contact me off list if you want it. Alan -- 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/