Re: [PATCH 5/5] pcmcia: disable pcmcia ioctl for !ARM, prepare forremoval

From: Russell King
Date: Sat May 15 2010 - 10:25:02 EST


On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 09:00:48AM +0100, Dominik Brodowski wrote:
> Furthermore, the last legitimate use of the ioctl to be reported
> relates to the ARM architecture in 2008.[1] Attempts to resolve
> this issue turned out unsuccessful so far.[2] Other usages have only
> been reported as hear-say. If there are any legitiate and necessary
> use-cases remaining, please speak out before the end of the grace
> period until 2.6.3{5,6}(-rc1).

What's the point of speaking out? You don't take any notice of people
who do, and you continue your crusade of wanting to remove it. Please,
stop giving the impression that you give a damn of what people say about
the ioctl interface.

--
Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of:
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