[2.6 patch] the long overdue pcmcia_ioctl.c removal

Russell King rmk+lkml at arm.linux.org.uk
Thu Feb 28 04:15:36 EST 2008


On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 01:24:57AM +0100, Peter Stuge wrote:
> (Really cross-post like this?)
> 
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 08:44:07PM +0000, Russell King wrote:
> > TBH I've given up trying to fight this continue "lets remove these
> > IOCTLs which no one uses" crap.  Obviously, _I_ use them.
> 
> I suppose critical mass or other powers that be have decided they
> aren't good enough. If your userspace will never change, settling
> on a kernel as well shouldn't be too big a deal.
> 
> Closed source sure sucks.

It's not closed source, but a case of "the machine with the CVS on was
taken down a couple of months after the project ended".

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Russell King
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