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From: Ben Dooks <ben-linux-elnMNo+KYs3YtjvyW6yDsg@public.gmane.org>
To: Andrew Victor <avictor.za-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
Cc: David Brownell <david-b-yBeKhBN/0LDR7s880joybQ@public.gmane.org>,
	i2c-GZX6beZjE8VD60Wz+7aTrA@public.gmane.org,
	ben-linux-elnMNo+KYs3YtjvyW6yDsg@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: [RFC: 2.6 patch] remove the i2c-at91.c driver
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 11:11:27 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080902101127.GJ2716@fluff.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cd73a99e0809010613w40569b3fv9f5fc96a7bfb6a29-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>

On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 03:13:14PM +0200, Andrew Victor wrote:
> hi Adrian,
> 
> > David Brownell marked this driver as broken in kernel 2.6.24 due to
> > hardware problems.
> >
> > If it depends on BROKEN it can as well be removed.
> 
> This driver should be usable on the new AT91SAM9G20 processor.
> Atmel have supposidly resolved all the hardware issues that caused
> this driver to fail.

Then would it be possible to have a patch to update the driver's
help text, and possibly update the Kconfig to reflect the dependency
on having working silicon?

Would it be better to rename this driver?

-- 
Ben (ben-elnMNo+KYs3YtjvyW6yDsg@public.gmane.org, http://www.fluff.org/)

  'a smiley only costs 4 bytes'

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-09-02 10:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-31 16:10 [RFC: 2.6 patch] remove the i2c-at91.c driver Adrian Bunk
     [not found] ` <20080831161005.GC3695-re2QNgSbS3j4D6uPqz5PAwR5/fbUUdgG@public.gmane.org>
2008-09-01 13:13   ` Andrew Victor
     [not found]     ` <cd73a99e0809010613w40569b3fv9f5fc96a7bfb6a29-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2008-09-02 10:11       ` Ben Dooks [this message]
     [not found]         ` <20080902101127.GJ2716-elnMNo+KYs3pIgCt6eIbzw@public.gmane.org>
2008-09-04 18:55           ` Andrew Victor
     [not found]             ` <cd73a99e0809041155m1f9e576dt5659da679fffb56d-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2008-09-04 19:18               ` David Brownell
     [not found]                 ` <200809041218.49604.david-b-yBeKhBN/0LDR7s880joybQ@public.gmane.org>
2008-09-04 20:14                   ` Andrew Victor
     [not found]                     ` <cd73a99e0809041314i54c7fd71ued53270517ecc829-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2008-09-04 20:25                       ` David Brownell
     [not found]                         ` <200809041325.30330.david-b-yBeKhBN/0LDR7s880joybQ@public.gmane.org>
2008-09-22 18:22                           ` Andrew Victor
2008-09-02 10:24       ` Ben Dooks

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