On Wed, 23 Nov 2005, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 12:23:25PM -0800, Patrick Mochel wrote:
> >
> > Hi there.
>
> Hi Patrick,
>
> > This is a series of 6 patches that remove the old, deprecated power
> > management interface from a variety of old OSS drivers, most of them
> > marked OBSOLETE and scheduled for removal in January 2006.
> >
> > These patches facilitate the removal of the ancient PM interface by
> > reducing the number of in-kernel users to 3:
> >
> > drivers/net/3c509.c
> > drivers/net/irda/ali-ircc.c
> > drivers/serial/68328serial.c
> >...
> > Does any one have any objections to these patches?
>
> I'd say the obsolete OSS drivers are the least problem, it would be more
> interesting to get the code fixed that will still be present two months
> from now.
I completely agree. I just wanted to start some place easy. :)
> Looking at the current state of 2.6.15, I doubt your patches would make
> it into Linus' tree earlier than the complete removal of the drivers.
That's a good point. I'll not worry about pushing the patches that affect
these to-be-removed drivers.
Thanks,
Patrick
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