From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: arnd@arndb.de (Arnd Bergmann) Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2017 22:19:29 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 2/2] isdn: i4l: move active-isdn drivers to staging In-Reply-To: <20170103152436.GA26156@kroah.com> References: <1456945629-1793533-1-git-send-email-arnd@arndb.de> <1456945629-1793533-2-git-send-email-arnd@arndb.de> <20170103152436.GA26156@kroah.com> Message-ID: <3286019.I2UkVCJq41@wuerfel> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Tuesday, January 3, 2017 4:24:36 PM CET Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Wed, Mar 02, 2016 at 08:06:46PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > The icn, act2000 and pcbit drivers are all for very old hardware, > > and it is highly unlikely that anyone is actually still using them > > on modern kernels, if at all. > > > > All three drivers apparently are for hardware that predates PCI > > being the common connector, as they are ISA-only and active > > PCI ISDN cards were widely available in the 1990s. > > > > Looking through the git logs, it I cannot find any indication of a > > patch to any of these drivers that has been tested on real hardware, > > only cleanups or global API changes. > > > > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann > > Acked-by: Karsten Keil > > This patch got added in the 4.6 kernel release. As I am now taking > patches for 4.11-rc1, I figure it is time to just delete the > drivers/staging/i4l/ directory now, given that no one has really done > anything with it. If people show up that wish to maintain it, I'll be > glad to revert it, or if someone really screams in the next week. > Otherwise it's time to just move on Sounds good to me. My original series contained four more patches that I did not post again after there was some concern[1] that we did not come to a conclusion on: isdn: gigaset: remove i4l code isdn: move isdnhdlc out of i4l isdn: i4l: move hisax driver to staging isdn: move i4l to staging I can post those as well, at least I think the first two are helpful for untangling i4l from the rest of ISDN. I also still think that moving hisax and i4l to staging is reasonable given the state of that code, even if there are a couple of users today. Arnd [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/3/4/762