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 (also as most defconfigs are quite outdated).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