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DateSat, 04 Nov 2006 22:22:39 +0059
FromJiri Slaby <>
SubjectRe: removing drivers and ISA support? [Was: Char: correct pci_get_device changes]
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,
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http://www.fi.muni.cz/~xslaby/            Jiri Slaby
faculty of informatics, masaryk university, brno, cz
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