linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] riscom8: fix use of deprecated functions

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Date:	Mon, 26 Mar 2007 20:07:16 +0200
From:	Joerg Roedel <joro-lkml@...g.org>
To:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] riscom8: fix use of deprecated functions

On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 10:52:09PM +0400, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 10:36:02PM +0200, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> > This patch replaces the deprecated functions in drivers/char/riscom8.c
> > and fixes the compile warnings they produced.
> 
> That's not the point of exercise. Make it SMP-safe, instead.

Thats not the excercise. The patch only removes the ugly compile time
warnings this driver produces. Thats what I can do without having the
hardware. But I know what you mean, maybe we should think about removing
this unmaintained piece of code completly. Are there actually users of
this driver with current kernels?

Joerg
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