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In message: <20041105232734.GA11231@odin.ac.hmc.edu>
            Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> writes:
: On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 04:18:49PM -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote:
: > That does bring up a good point: How are we going to manage the compat
: > stuff moving forward?
: 
: My opinion shouldn't carry much weight in this discussion since I
: haven't written any significant code in this area, but the compat code
: has confused the heck out of me every time I tried to read through the
: USB code.  Given the problems we've seen with USB over the last several
: years, I don't think the compat code has been the win we hoped it would
: be.

I hate the compat later.  I'd love to see it go.  I'd even be open for
a better compat layer, but what we have now is painful!

warner