Re: [PARPORT] Re: PARPORT_DEV_EXCL


Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@e-mind.com)
Sat, 26 Sep 1998 17:52:29 +0200 (CEST)


On Sat, 26 Sep 1998, Philip Blundell wrote:

>>I'm jumpy about removing it altogether, but how's this?
>
>I don't think there's any need to print a warning. The "lurk" flag hasn't
>actually done anything for a very long time so there's no compatibility risk.
>We can just ignore it and remember not to reuse that bit for anything else.

If you are going to not reuse the bit we can just leave some byte in the
kernel to print a warning in the case I think. I can also remove the test
but in this case it would be better to remove the #define too to warn
people to fix their driver (that will not compile anymore).

Andrea[s] Arcangeli

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