From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Sun, 29 Apr 2007 23:06:16 +0100 (BST) Received: from verein.lst.de ([213.95.11.210]:25248 "EHLO mail.lst.de") by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S20022276AbXD2WGO (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Apr 2007 23:06:14 +0100 Received: from verein.lst.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.lst.de (8.12.3/8.12.3/Debian-7.1) with ESMTP id l3TM5nLD023559 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Mon, 30 Apr 2007 00:05:49 +0200 Received: (from hch@localhost) by verein.lst.de (8.12.3/8.12.3/Debian-6.6) id l3TM5nwb023557; Mon, 30 Apr 2007 00:05:49 +0200 Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 00:05:48 +0200 From: Christoph Hellwig To: jejb@steeleye.com, davem@davemloft.net Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-m68k@vger.kernel.org, linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: [PATCH] deprecate the old NCR53C9x driver Message-ID: <20070429220548.GA22666@lst.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.39 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: 14945 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: hch@lst.de Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips Now that we have the much better esp_scsi driver and low level drivers are easy to port over deprecate the old NCR53C9x driver. I've Cc'ed the m68k and mips lists because all but one bus glues are for these platforms. Chances stand bad for the remaining driver, mca_53c9x which hasn't gotten any non-trivial update since it was merge in late 2.1.x and whos maintainers mail address bounces. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Index: linux-2.6/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt 2007-04-29 23:44:46.000000000 +0200 +++ linux-2.6/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt 2007-04-29 23:45:55.000000000 +0200 @@ -6,6 +6,13 @@ be removed from this file. --------------------------- +What: old NCR53C9x driver +When: October 2007 +Why: Replaced by the much better esp_scsi driver. Actual low-level + driver can ported over almost trivially. +Who: David Miller + Christoph Hellwig + What: V4L2 VIDIOC_G_MPEGCOMP and VIDIOC_S_MPEGCOMP When: October 2007 Why: Broken attempt to set MPEG compression parameters. These ioctls are