From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Fri, 16 Jun 2006 21:29:12 +0100 (BST) Received: from smtp-105-friday.nerim.net ([62.4.16.105]:2573 "HELO kraid.nerim.net") by ftp.linux-mips.org with SMTP id S8134121AbWFPU3D (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Jun 2006 21:29:03 +0100 Received: from arrakis.delvare (jdelvare.pck.nerim.net [62.212.121.182]) by kraid.nerim.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 8178440F59; Fri, 16 Jun 2006 22:28:59 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 22:29:08 +0200 From: Jean Delvare To: Pete Popov Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: i2c-algo-ite and i2c-ite planned for removal Message-Id: <20060616222908.f96e3691.khali@linux-fr.org> In-Reply-To: <1150406598.1193.73.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <20060615225723.012c82be.khali@linux-fr.org> <1150406598.1193.73.camel@localhost.localdomain> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.6 (GTK+ 2.6.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 11751 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: khali@linux-fr.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips Hi Pete, > > So basically we have two drivers in the kernel tree for 5 years or so, > > which never were usable, and nobody seemed to care. > > For historical correctness, this driver was once upon a time usable, > though it was a few years ago. It was written by MV for some ref board > that had the ITE chip and it did work. That ref board is no longer > around so it's probably safe to nuke the driver. In which kernel version? In every version I checked (2.4.12, 2.4.30, 2.6.0 and 2.6.16) it wouldn't compile due to struct iic_ite being used but never defined (and possibly other errors, but I can't test-compile the driver.) -- Jean Delvare