Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757171Ab1CBSTM (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Mar 2011 13:19:12 -0500 Received: from filtteri6.pp.htv.fi ([213.243.153.189]:40082 "EHLO filtteri6.pp.htv.fi" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756436Ab1CBSTK (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Mar 2011 13:19:10 -0500 Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2011 20:19:11 +0200 (EET) From: Aaro Koskinen X-X-Sender: aaro@loser To: Greg KH cc: Aaro Koskinen , gregkh@suse.de, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, arnaud.patard@rtp-net.org Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] staging: xgifb: remove private ioctls In-Reply-To: <20110302153132.GA7325@kroah.com> Message-ID: References: <1299016212-1060-1-git-send-email-aaro.koskinen@iki.fi> <20110302153132.GA7325@kroah.com> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (DEB 962 2008-03-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 848 Lines: 22 Hi, On Wed, 2 Mar 2011, Greg KH wrote: > On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 11:50:12PM +0200, Aaro Koskinen wrote: >> Drop the badly defined and broken private ioctl interface. Since the >> driver is in staging, and some of the ioctls are clearly unsafe or not >> even working, it's unlikely that there are any users. >> >> Signed-off-by: Aaro Koskinen > > Is this just a RFC, or do you want me to apply this patch? I wasn't sure if we should try to retain all the interfaces the driver provides. But if there are no objections, please apply, it will help a lot with further cleanups. A. -- 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/