From: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Matthias Beyer <mail@beyermatthias.de>,
gregkh@linuxfoundation.org,
Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>,
Manuel Messner <manuel.johannes.messner@hs-furtwangen.de>,
Geliang Tang <geliangtang@163.com>,
Cihangir Akturk <cakturk@gmail.com>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] Some cleanup patches for drivers/staging/rtl8723au/core/rtw_mlme.c
Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2016 12:11:52 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <wrfjk2epypmf.fsf@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1473178128.8300.8.camel@perches.com> (Joe Perches's message of "Tue, 06 Sep 2016 09:08:48 -0700")
Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> writes:
> On Tue, 2016-09-06 at 12:00 -0400, Jes Sorensen wrote:
>
>> Nothing wrong with these patches, however I intend to post a patch to
>> remove this driver soon, so it's kind of a waste of your time to spend
>> too many cycles on it.
>
> It might be useful to mark any drivers you're
> planning on removing as "Obsolete" in MAINTAINERS.
>
> checkpatch will then emit a "don't waste your time"
> message if anyone scans an obsolete driver/file.
I see, wasn't aware of that. I did add a printk to it for 4.6 notifying
users that the driver was going to go away.
Jes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-06 16:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-04 19:26 [PATCH 0/5] Some cleanup patches for drivers/staging/rtl8723au/core/rtw_mlme.c Matthias Beyer
2016-09-04 19:26 ` [PATCH 1/5] drivers: staging: rtl8723au: core: Fix checkpatch.pl errors Matthias Beyer
2016-09-04 19:26 ` [PATCH 2/5] drivers: staging: rtl8723au: core: simplify if-break-else Matthias Beyer
2016-09-04 19:26 ` [PATCH 3/5] drivers: staging: rtl8723au: core: Refactor pointless branching Matthias Beyer
2016-09-04 19:26 ` [PATCH 4/5] drivers: staging: rtl8723au: core: Fix "space prohibited" warning Matthias Beyer
2016-09-04 19:26 ` [PATCH 5/5] drivers: staging: rtl8723au: core: Fix indentation Matthias Beyer
2016-09-06 16:00 ` [PATCH 0/5] Some cleanup patches for drivers/staging/rtl8723au/core/rtw_mlme.c Jes Sorensen
2016-09-06 16:08 ` Joe Perches
2016-09-06 16:11 ` Jes Sorensen [this message]
2016-09-07 7:43 ` Matthias Beyer
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