From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
To: Don Dutile <ddutile@redhat.com>
Cc: Potnuri Bharat Teja <bharat@chelsio.com>,
dledford@redhat.com, linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org,
nirranjan@chelsio.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH for-next] iw_cxgb3: remove iw_cxgb3 module from kernel.
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2019 17:46:47 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191018204647.GA6087@ziepe.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <411c4ea1-4320-fa04-b014-7e5fe91869a8@redhat.com>
On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 01:47:29PM -0400, Don Dutile wrote:
> Isn't there a better way to mark a driver deprecated?
>
> This kind of removal makes long-term maintenance of such drivers
> painful in downstream distros, as API changes that are rippled from
> core through all the drivers, don't update these drivers, and when
> backporting such API changes to downstream distros, we have to +1
> removed drivers.
You still have cxg3 as an enabled & supported driver? In RH8? Why?
> It's much easier if upstream continues to update the drivers for
> such across-the-driver-patch-changes. heck, add a separate patch
> that punches out a printk stating DEPRECATED (dropping a patch to
> backport is easy! :) ).
The whole point of doing this is to avoid this work!
Jason
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-18 20:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-09-30 7:42 [PATCH for-next] iw_cxgb3: remove iw_cxgb3 module from kernel Potnuri Bharat Teja
2019-10-04 18:11 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-10-17 6:41 ` Adit Ranadive
2019-10-17 8:29 ` Potnuri Bharat Teja
2019-10-18 20:47 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-10-18 20:49 ` Doug Ledford
2019-10-10 14:26 ` Michal Kalderon
2019-10-16 17:47 ` Don Dutile
2019-10-17 6:06 ` Leon Romanovsky
2019-10-18 20:46 ` Jason Gunthorpe [this message]
2019-10-18 20:51 ` Doug Ledford
2019-10-18 22:50 ` Don Dutile
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