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From: Jiri Kosina <jkosina-AlSwsSmVLrQ@public.gmane.org>
To: Stefan Achatz
	<erazor_de-Rn4VEauK+AKRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org>
Cc: linux-api-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org,
	linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org,
	linux-input-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] HID: roccat: Removing all modules except Kone
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2015 11:42:19 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1506181141150.12753@pobox.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1429202372.2351.6.camel-/ZsuMndpQpv+LLWKTYdlgUWBcfzl8p5a/AviwAImx+Y@public.gmane.org>

On Thu, 16 Apr 2015, Stefan Achatz wrote:

> This patch removes all roccat hid modules except the one for the first Kone.
> 
> Package roccat-tools is the only known user of these modules. Starting with
> roccat-tools-2.2.0, released 7 months ago, I'm not using these modules
> anymore. All functionality has been moved to userspace using hidraw.

7 months means 2 or 3 major kernel releases, and no depreciation process 
has happened.

Could you please work on more user-friendly depreciation plan for these 
drivers?

Thanks,

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs

      parent reply	other threads:[~2015-06-18  9:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-16 16:39 [PATCH] HID: roccat: Removing all modules except Kone Stefan Achatz
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2015-06-18  9:42   ` Jiri Kosina [this message]

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