On Wed, 23 Nov 2005, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 12:23:25PM -0800, Patrick Mochel wrote: > > > > Hi there. > > Hi Patrick, > > > This is a series of 6 patches that remove the old, deprecated power > > management interface from a variety of old OSS drivers, most of them > > marked OBSOLETE and scheduled for removal in January 2006. > > > > These patches facilitate the removal of the ancient PM interface by > > reducing the number of in-kernel users to 3: > > > > drivers/net/3c509.c > > drivers/net/irda/ali-ircc.c > > drivers/serial/68328serial.c > >... > > Does any one have any objections to these patches? > > I'd say the obsolete OSS drivers are the least problem, it would be more > interesting to get the code fixed that will still be present two months > from now. I completely agree. I just wanted to start some place easy. :) > Looking at the current state of 2.6.15, I doubt your patches would make > it into Linus' tree earlier than the complete removal of the drivers. That's a good point. I'll not worry about pushing the patches that affect these to-be-removed drivers. Thanks, Patrick
