Re: [PATCH 9/9] HID: add compat support

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[PATCH 9/9] HID: add compat support
\ Jiri Slaby (11 May 2008)
. \ Sam Ravnborg (11 May 2008)
. . \ Jiri Slaby (11 May 2008)
. . . \ Sam Ravnborg (11 May 2008)
. . . . \ Jiri Slaby (12 May 2008)
. \ Marcel Holtmann (11 May 2008)

2 msg	[PATCH] s390/char/vmlogrdr: module initializati...
3 msg	[PATCH 7/9] HID: move ignore quirks
1 msg	[PATCH 6/9] HID: move logitech report quirks
2 msg	[PATCH] net/s2io: set_rxd_buffer_pointer return...
1 msg	[PATCH 5/9] HID: move usage input mapping to hid.h
1 msg	[PATCH 4/9] HID: move ids into separate file
4 msg	[PATCH 3/9] HID: hid, make parsing event driven
1 msg	is __setup_null_param() officially obsolete?
5 msg	[PATCH] isdn/capi: return proper errnos on modu...
4 msg	[PATCH 2/9] HID: make a bus from hid code
2 msg	[RFC] [PATCH] dlm: tcp_connect_to_sock should c...
1 msg	[PATCH 1/9] modpost: add support for hid
1 msg	[PATCH] cifs: CIFSSMBPosixLock should return -E...
1 msg	[PATCH] v4l: check_v4l2 should return -EINVAL o...
1 msg	[RFC] [PATCH] s390/net/claw: don't ignore retur...

Subject:	Re: [PATCH 9/9] HID: add compat support
Group:	Linux-kernel
From:	Marcel Holtmann
Date:	11 May 2008

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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