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Message-ID: <9a8748490610261531s539b0861t621e95c785b53d7@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 00:31:37 +0200 From: "Jesper Juhl" <jesper.juhl@...il.com> To: "Adrian Bunk" <bunk@...sta.de> Cc: "Jiri Slaby" <jirislaby@...il.com>, "Alan Cox" <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>, "Linux kernel mailing list" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: removing drivers and ISA support? [Was: Char: correct pci_get_device changes] On 27/10/06, Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.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. > > And there are even Pentium 4 boards with ISA slots available. > Not to mention many embedded boards - many pc104 boards use ISA, just to mention one type. -- Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@...il.com> Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please http://www.expita.com/nomime.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.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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