From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jean Delvare Subject: Re: Removing deprecated drivers from drivers/i2c/chips Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:49:37 +0200 Message-ID: <20090910124937.7b3df062@hyperion.delvare> References: <1252531371-14866-1-git-send-email-w.sang@pengutronix.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1252531371-14866-1-git-send-email-w.sang-bIcnvbaLZ9MEGnE8C9+IrQ@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-i2c-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Wolfram Sang Cc: linux-i2c-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linuxppc-dev-mnsaURCQ41sdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org, linux-arm-kernel-IAPFreCvJWM7uuMidbF8XUB+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org, linux-mips-6z/3iImG2C8G8FEW9MqTrA@public.gmane.org, uclinux-dist-devel-ZG0+EudsQA8dtHy/vicBwGD2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org Hi Wolfram, On Wed, 9 Sep 2009 23:22:47 +0200, Wolfram Sang wrote: > continuing the quest to clean up and ultimately remove the drivers/i2c/chips > directory, this patch series removes three drivers for GPIO-expanders which are > obsoleted and marked as deprecated for more than a year. The newer (and better) > drivers can be found in drivers/gpio. > > As it is ensured that the newer drivers cover the same i2c_device_ids, all > platform_devices will still match. Some defconfig updates may be necessary > though, but according to [1] this is left to the arch|platform-maintainers > (also as most defconfigs are quite outdated). For that reason, I put the > relevant arch-mailing-lists to Cc. Comments are welcome. Looks very good, I'll apply the 3 patches removing the legacy drivers. Not sure about the patch to drivers/gpio/pcf857x.c, as there is no gpio tree and no maintainer either AFAIK, I guess I shall pick it too? Thanks, -- Jean Delvare From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:49:47 +0200 (CEST) Received: from bamako.nerim.net ([62.4.17.28]:58852 "EHLO bamako.nerim.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S1492244AbZIJKtk (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:49:40 +0200 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bamako.nerim.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E09B639DCB0; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:49:37 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at nerim.net Received: from bamako.nerim.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (bamako.nerim.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 04+egjYJ86w8; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:49:36 +0200 (CEST) Received: from hyperion.delvare (jdelvare.pck.nerim.net [62.212.121.182]) by bamako.nerim.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96A1839DCA1; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:49:36 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:49:37 +0200 From: Jean Delvare To: Wolfram Sang Cc: linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-mips@linux-mips.org, uclinux-dist-devel@blackfin.uclinux.org Subject: Re: Removing deprecated drivers from drivers/i2c/chips Message-ID: <20090910124937.7b3df062@hyperion.delvare> In-Reply-To: <1252531371-14866-1-git-send-email-w.sang@pengutronix.de> References: <1252531371-14866-1-git-send-email-w.sang@pengutronix.de> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.5.0 (GTK+ 2.14.4; i586-suse-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: 24007 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: khali@linux-fr.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips Hi Wolfram, On Wed, 9 Sep 2009 23:22:47 +0200, Wolfram Sang wrote: > continuing the quest to clean up and ultimately remove the drivers/i2c/chips > directory, this patch series removes three drivers for GPIO-expanders which are > obsoleted and marked as deprecated for more than a year. The newer (and better) > drivers can be found in drivers/gpio. > > As it is ensured that the newer drivers cover the same i2c_device_ids, all > platform_devices will still match. Some defconfig updates may be necessary > though, but according to [1] this is left to the arch|platform-maintainers > (also as most defconfigs are quite outdated). For that reason, I put the > relevant arch-mailing-lists to Cc. Comments are welcome. Looks very good, I'll apply the 3 patches removing the legacy drivers. Not sure about the patch to drivers/gpio/pcf857x.c, as there is no gpio tree and no maintainer either AFAIK, I guess I shall pick it too? Thanks, -- Jean Delvare From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from ozlabs.org (ozlabs.org [203.10.76.45]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "mx.ozlabs.org", Issuer "CA Cert Signing Authority" (verified OK)) by bilbo.ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8D60DB6F56 for ; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:56:09 +1000 (EST) Received: from bamako.nerim.net (bamako.nerim.net [62.4.17.28]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30F91DDD01 for ; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:56:08 +1000 (EST) Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:49:37 +0200 From: Jean Delvare To: Wolfram Sang Subject: Re: Removing deprecated drivers from drivers/i2c/chips Message-ID: <20090910124937.7b3df062@hyperion.delvare> In-Reply-To: <1252531371-14866-1-git-send-email-w.sang@pengutronix.de> References: <1252531371-14866-1-git-send-email-w.sang@pengutronix.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, uclinux-dist-devel@blackfin.uclinux.org, linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-mips@linux-mips.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Hi Wolfram, On Wed, 9 Sep 2009 23:22:47 +0200, Wolfram Sang wrote: > continuing the quest to clean up and ultimately remove the drivers/i2c/chips > directory, this patch series removes three drivers for GPIO-expanders which are > obsoleted and marked as deprecated for more than a year. The newer (and better) > drivers can be found in drivers/gpio. > > As it is ensured that the newer drivers cover the same i2c_device_ids, all > platform_devices will still match. Some defconfig updates may be necessary > though, but according to [1] this is left to the arch|platform-maintainers > (also as most defconfigs are quite outdated). For that reason, I put the > relevant arch-mailing-lists to Cc. Comments are welcome. Looks very good, I'll apply the 3 patches removing the legacy drivers. Not sure about the patch to drivers/gpio/pcf857x.c, as there is no gpio tree and no maintainer either AFAIK, I guess I shall pick it too? Thanks, -- Jean Delvare From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: khali@linux-fr.org (Jean Delvare) Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:49:37 +0200 Subject: Removing deprecated drivers from drivers/i2c/chips In-Reply-To: <1252531371-14866-1-git-send-email-w.sang@pengutronix.de> References: <1252531371-14866-1-git-send-email-w.sang@pengutronix.de> Message-ID: <20090910124937.7b3df062@hyperion.delvare> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org Hi Wolfram, On Wed, 9 Sep 2009 23:22:47 +0200, Wolfram Sang wrote: > continuing the quest to clean up and ultimately remove the drivers/i2c/chips > directory, this patch series removes three drivers for GPIO-expanders which are > obsoleted and marked as deprecated for more than a year. The newer (and better) > drivers can be found in drivers/gpio. > > As it is ensured that the newer drivers cover the same i2c_device_ids, all > platform_devices will still match. Some defconfig updates may be necessary > though, but according to [1] this is left to the arch|platform-maintainers > (also as most defconfigs are quite outdated). For that reason, I put the > relevant arch-mailing-lists to Cc. Comments are welcome. Looks very good, I'll apply the 3 patches removing the legacy drivers. Not sure about the patch to drivers/gpio/pcf857x.c, as there is no gpio tree and no maintainer either AFAIK, I guess I shall pick it too? Thanks, -- Jean Delvare