linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 9/9] HID: add compat support

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Date:	Mon, 12 May 2008 01:18:58 +0200
From:	Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org>
To:	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>
Cc:	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>,
	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>,
	linux-input@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	anssi.hannula@...il.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 9/9] HID: add compat support

Hi Jiri,

> Add compat option to hid code to allow loading of all modules on
> systems which don't allow autoloading because of old userspace.

this is pretty ugly. Please add a line to feature-removal-schedule.txt
to mark that this will be removed within the next 6 month. At that point
every distribution should have updated udev and module-init-tools.

Regards

Marcel


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