Re: [2.6 patch] the long overdue pcmcia_ioctl.c removal

From: Adrian Bunk
Date: Wed Feb 27 2008 - 13:14:41 EST


On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 05:01:33AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 23:31:15 +0200 Adrian Bunk <bunk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > pcmcia_ioctl.c was scheduled for removal in 2005, and it has a
> > deprecation printk() since 2005 (sic).
> >
> > This patch contains the long overdue removal and the cleanups that are
> > now possible.
>
> I've had this in -mm for ages, with a note that Dominik had a problem with
> it. Maybe there are subtleties here, dunno.

This removal has bells and whistles and printk() since 2005...

Dominik, what exactly is the problem why we can't remove it now?

cu
Adrian

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