Re: Git tree updated to v2.6.28-rc2, old sound and v4l drivers removed

[Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>]

* Felipe Balbi <me@felipebalbi.com> [081027 18:25]:
> On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 01:43:24PM -0700, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I've updated our git tree to 2.6.28-rc2, so please check that I did
> > not mis-merge any of your code that's not yet in the mainline tree.
> > 
> > I've also removed the old omap audio and v4l drivers as we've discussed
> > earlier. The development for these drivers should be happening in
> > the alsa and v4l lists.
> > 
> > I'll be removing more old drivers, such as drivers/mtd and
> > drivers/video.. But let's first figure out what we want to get merged
> > upstream from there.
> 
> we should get anything out of drivers/i2c/chips since Jean wanna get rid
> of that directory. So if you apply the patches I wrote to lp5521 I'm
> fixing a few stuff and moving that driver to drivers/leds. After that I
> could send that driver to Richard.
> 
> I'd also say the old 770 drivers should be kicked out as patches (on
> muru.com??) and remerged via the proper subsystem maintainers.

Well I'll remove them and add patch title "REMOVE OMAP LEGACY CODE"
again, that way it's easy to find the patches in git. That way the
patches will stay mirrored on multiple servers too ;)

> n8x0 are still too "new" to do that, but we should get some more effort
> in merging those drivers upstream. If anyone wanna help, that would be
> really appreciated. I'll try to do what I can with my small spare time.

Well I have those retu watchdog and keyboard patches that need more
work, but it may take a while before I get a chance to work on those
again.

For the cbus support, I think we could possibly expand the drivers/spi
to do cbus too..

Tony