From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Thu, 22 Jun 2006 12:22:56 +0100 (BST) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([127.0.0.1]:60119 "EHLO bacchus.dhis.org") by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S8133833AbWFVLWr (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Jun 2006 12:22:47 +0100 Received: from denk.linux-mips.net (denk.linux-mips.net [127.0.0.1]) by bacchus.dhis.org (8.13.6/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k5MBMllv006758; Thu, 22 Jun 2006 12:22:47 +0100 Received: (from ralf@localhost) by denk.linux-mips.net (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id k5MBMkgZ006757; Thu, 22 Jun 2006 12:22:46 +0100 Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 12:22:46 +0100 From: Ralf Baechle To: ankur maheshwari Cc: Jean Delvare , Pete Popov , linux-mips@linux-mips.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: i2c-algo-ite and i2c-ite planned for removal Message-ID: <20060622112246.GB4032@linux-mips.org> References: <20060620120836.628ddc79.khali@linux-fr.org> <110701c694f4$f1412fb0$f301a8c0@procsys> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <110701c694f4$f1412fb0$f301a8c0@procsys> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 11808 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: ralf@linux-mips.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 11:08:34AM +0530, ankur maheshwari wrote: > I have used once i2c-adap-ite and i2c-algo-ite for ite-8712 chip and it > worked fine for me in MV 2.4.25. The fact that is used to work in some vendor kernel is irrelevant. And 2.4 hardly indicates anyway. > Its been an year ago, I asked on same forum if some one has used it > before but I didn't got any reply. You see how amazingly popular the board was. On April 2 just after 2.6.16 was out I announced my intension to remove the board in http://www.linux-mips.org/cgi-bin/mesg.cgi?a=linux-mips&i=20060402194822.GA26358%40linux-mips.org Nobody raised hand to take care of the maintenance of any of these boards, thus http://www.linux-mips.org/wiki/ITE-8172G also marks the board as to be deleted. > It's just an info on ite-chip works, to remove it from kernel tree ..... > decision is up to you : ). There is more that just that wrong with the board support. And if the fact that it is was broken does not even result bug reports this is another indicator the board a board should go. The usual reminder: patches to fix the issues will be accepted. Ralf