On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 17:03:58 +0200
Tilman Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 14:40:54 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > If the obsolete tag is to be removed then it needs a formal maintainer,
> > all the obsolete interface usage cleaning up and the like otherwise at
> > some point in a clean up it is going to end up breaking and migrating to
> > && BROKEN as well.
>
> I'm not sure I understand. What do you mean by "obsolete interface
> usage"? What sort of cleaning up needs to be done? What sort of
> breakage do you anticipate in the event of a clean up?
Things like:
pci_find_device
pci_find_bus
interruptible_sleep_on
sleep_on
lock_kernel
unlock_kernel
and the drivers that i4l uses (eg hisax) need switching to the proper
pci_module interfaces to handle hot plug.
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