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Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 01:35:06AM +0159, Jiri Slaby wrote: >> Jesper Juhl wrote:>>> On 27/10/06, Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> wrote: >>>> On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 07:59:56PM +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote: >>>>> ...>>>>> And what about (E)ISA support. When converting to pci probing,>>>> should be ISA bus>>>>> support preserved (how much is ISA used in present)? -- it makes>>>> code ugly and long.>>>>>>>> There seem to be still many running 486 machines - and only the last 486 >>>> boards also had PCI slots.>>>>>>>> While deprecating OSS drivers, I got emails from people still using some >>>> of the ISA cards.>> That might be a problem if the whole subsystem disappears, but if only ISA >> support from some driver is pruned away, they are still able to use the old >> driver by replacing the new one from some older kernel. >> Then, we'll get nicer drivers in return.> > - this doesn't work for people using distribution kernels > - "by replacing the new one from some older kernel" doesn't sound > reasonable - 3 or 4 point releases later it will have become pretty > unlikely that the driver will still work unmodified > (if you disagree, please name one ISA driver where the 2.6.15 version > compiles without any modifications in 2.6.19-rc3) Ok, thank all for the notes, -- http://www.fi.muni.cz/~xslaby/ Jiri Slaby faculty of informatics, masaryk university, brno, cz e-mail: jirislaby gmail com, gpg pubkey fingerprint: B674 9967 0407 CE62 ACC8 22A0 32CC 55C3 39D4 7A7E - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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