Re: [RFC: 2.6 patch] remove ISA legacy functions

On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 12:27:56AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> >On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 12:08:29AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> >
> >>it's not valid to mark working drivers broken, IMO.
> >>
> >>Mark them x86-only, perhaps.
> >
> >
> >hp100 works fine on parisc.
> 
> Certainly.  The point was, don't mark them broken, limit them to the 
> arches where they work.

I think they work fine everywhere.  Adrian wants to remove the API they
use.

I think this is a bad idea.  The drivers should be converted.
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