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On Sun, 14 Mar 2004, Scott Long wrote:

> On Sun, 14 Mar 2004, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> > Removed ISA_COMPAT so that... ?
> >
> > We have less drivers?
> > Paves the way for feature X?
> > Paves the way for ...?
> >
> > If it's just to remove something that's "ugly" but doesn't have an
> > impact on things, then it's not really in our best interest to remove
> > something that _works_ when a replacement is not even needed.
>
> Actually, the ISA compat shims don't work in 5.x.  The only purpose that

Actually, they just work.  Drivers may have problems with rotted locking,
but not with the shims.

> they served was to allow those drivers to keep compiling.  I believe that

The cy driver is a counterexample.

Bruce