Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 27 Jul 2003 22:56:39 +0200 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: time for some drivers to be removed? |
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On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 09:40:43PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > On Sul, 2003-07-27 at 19:45, David D. Hagood wrote: > > I would disagree - OBSOLETE to me means just that - that module is > > obsolete. Minix FS, OSS (as opposed to ALSA), and the old non-SCSI, > > non-IDE HD interfaces would be OBSOLETE. > > > > Besides, I have seen cases where Firewire modules wouldn't build for > > some period of time - would you deem them OBSOLETE? > > The code in question is obsolete if it wont build because its out of date > with respect to the core. The point I was trying to make is we have a > definition (have had since 2.2) and actively use it. So there is nothing > to invent here
That's no problem for me.
The only question is how to call the option that allows building only on UP (e.g. cli/sti usage in the driver)? My suggestion was BROKEN_ON_SMP, would you suggest OBSOLETE_ON_SMP?
cu Adrian
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