Re: Proposed removal of the dpc7146 driver

[Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>]

On Monday 07 July 2008 22:14:44 Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Jul 2008 22:06:41 +0200
>
> Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> wrote:
> > On Mon, 7 Jul 2008 21:41:03 +0200, Hans Verkuil wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > If no one objects, then I propose to remove this driver in kernel
> > > 2.6.28 and announce its removal by adding the following notice to
> > > the 2.6.27 feature-removal-schedule.txt document:
> > >
> > > What:   V4L2 dpc7146 driver
> > > When:   September 2008
> > > Why:    Old driver for the dpc7146 demonstration board that is no
> > > longer relevant. The last time this was tested on actual hardware
> > > was probably around 2002. Since this is a driver for a
> > > demonstration board the decision was made to remove it rather
> > > than spending a lot of effort continually updating this driver to
> > > stay in sync with the latest internal V4L2 or I2C API.
> > > Who:    Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
> > >
> > >
> > > Michael Hunold, the author of this driver, agrees with my
> > > assessment that this driver is no longer relevant.
> >
> > +1
> >
> > (Less i2c-related drivers means less work for me.)
>
> Seems ok also to me.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Mauro

Hi Mauro,

Great. Can you take care of adding this notice to the feature removal 
document? Perhaps it is a good idea to add it to the 2.6.26 kernel 
before it is released.

When the 2.6.27 window closes I'll prepare a patch to actually remove it 
from the v4l-dvb repository.

Regards,

	Hans

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