From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jean Delvare Subject: Re: Removing duplicate drivers from chips? Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2009 23:23:51 +0200 Message-ID: <20090906232351.55ff4fce@hyperion.delvare> References: <20090906205526.GA8434@pengutronix.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20090906205526.GA8434-bIcnvbaLZ9MEGnE8C9+IrQ@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-i2c-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Wolfram Sang Cc: linux-i2c-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org Hi Wolfram, On Sun, 6 Sep 2009 22:55:26 +0200, Wolfram Sang wrote: > Hi Jean, > > I am thinking about cleaning up the 'chips'-directory further by removing the > duplicate pca/pcf-drivers. Those are marked as deprecated for more than a year > now. Remembering the defconfig-discussion when we moved out the eeprom drivers, > I think it is best to not touch the defconfigs but inform the arch-maintainers > about the removal of these drivers, so they can handle whatever is necessary. > Are you okay with this approach or do you think we should keep the drivers a > little longer? I am totally fine with removing these drivers from linux-next right now. Then depending on the feedback, from upstream in either 2.6.32 or 2.6.33. -- Jean Delvare