Hi Mark, On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 11:45:58AM -0400, Mark Asselstine wrote: > After looking at feature-removal-schedule.txt while doing some kernel > janitor work I noticed that the PCMCIA ioctl was set for removal back > in 2005 and that the kconfig was marked as obsolete along with printk > warning people not to use the ioctl... So I was preparing to remove > this but I notice you have recent commits related to the ioctl and so > I want to run things by you first. Is this ioctl still being used? or > should it be removed? I have attached a patch for Linus' tree but of > course I would have to rework this against the PCMCIA tree. Anyways > let me know, if I am better off spending time on something else that I > will do. If you do want this gone let me know and as I say I will > rework the patch to apply against the proper tree. Unfortunately, there's still a prominent user of the IOCTL -- which means it cannot go just now. I'll try to replace it with something more sensible, but please don't push the removal patch just yet :) Thanks and best wishes, Dominik -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
