Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 11 Jun 2012 16:42:04 -0700 | From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] delete seven tty headers |
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On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 04:40:33PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 01:53:06PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > > I agree (I wrote I doubt there are any users at all). But I would prefer > > > going through the deprecation phase (adding a #warning) anyway. Removing > > > the headers completely in a year, or maybe sooner is OK then. > > > > I really see no point. Distributions are going to build against a set of > > headers generated from a kernel, once at the time the distribution is > > first assembled (eg the kernel-headers package in Fedora). > > I agree, I'll take this patch now as the drivers are gone, the headers > should be as well.
Although, as this originally happened in 3.1, I think it's safe to wait for 3.6 for this patch to go in, no rush for 3.5.
thanks,
greg k-h
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