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Re: Remove pre-2.2 Linux kernel support
- From: David Miller <davem at davemloft dot net>
- To: joseph at codesourcery dot com
- Cc: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org, rsa at us dot ibm dot com, thomas at codesourcery dot com, kkojima at rr dot iij4u dot or dot jp
- Date: Tue, 08 May 2012 17:18:59 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: Remove pre-2.2 Linux kernel support
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.64.1205081941540.9117@digraph.polyomino.org.uk>
From: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph@codesourcery.com>
Date: Tue, 8 May 2012 19:46:07 +0000 (UTC)
> I propose this patch to remove compatibility code for kernels before
> 2.2.x as a first step in cleaning up the no-longer-useful old kernel
> support. Tested x86. Could the powerpc, sh and sparc maintainers
> test and review the changes to their architectures' code? Because
> this patch with lots of reindentation may not be very readable, I've
> also attached a diff -w version.
Looks fine and tested on sparcv9-unknown-linux-gnu and
sparc64-unknown-linux-gnu.