The patch titled viafb: deprecate private ioctls has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is viafb-deprecate-private-ioctls.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: viafb: deprecate private ioctls From: Florian Tobias Schandinat <FlorianSchandinat@xxxxxx> Print a warning when viafb ioctls are called. Those should not be used as their exact meaning is sometimes unknown and they in parts duplicate functionality present in the framebuffer interface. There is no known user of these ioctls. Signed-off-by: Florian Tobias Schandinat <FlorianSchandinat@xxxxxx> Cc: Joseph Chan <JosephChan@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Scott Fang <ScottFang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/video/via/viafbdev.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff -puN drivers/video/via/viafbdev.c~viafb-deprecate-private-ioctls drivers/video/via/viafbdev.c --- a/drivers/video/via/viafbdev.c~viafb-deprecate-private-ioctls +++ a/drivers/video/via/viafbdev.c @@ -477,6 +477,7 @@ static int viafb_ioctl(struct fb_info *i u32 gpu32; DEBUG_MSG(KERN_INFO "viafb_ioctl: 0x%X !!\n", cmd); + printk(KERN_WARNING "viafb_ioctl: Please avoid this interface as it is unstable and might change or vanish at any time!\n"); memset(&u, 0, sizeof(u)); switch (cmd) { _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from FlorianSchandinat@xxxxxx are viafb-deprecate-private-ioctls.patch viafb-remove-dead-code.patch viafb-split-global-index-up.patch viafb-remove-the-remaining-via_res_-uses.patch viafb-some-dvi-cleanup.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html