RE: deprecating amso1100

Steve Wise
2015-07-29T14:31:29Z

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Doug Ledford [mailto:dledford-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2015 9:28 AM
> To: Dennis Dalessandro
> Cc: Steve Wise; linux-rdma-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org
> Subject: Re: deprecating amso1100
>
> On 07/21/2015 04:45 PM, Doug Ledford wrote:
> >
> >> On Jul 21, 2015, at 4:42 PM, Dalessandro, Dennis <dennis.dalessandro-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> >>
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: linux-rdma-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org [mailto:linux-rdma-
> >>> owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Doug Ledford
> >>> Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2015 2:49 PM
> >>> To: Steve Wise
> >>> Cc: linux-rdma-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org
> >>> Subject: Re: deprecating amso1100
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> On Jul 21, 2015, at 2:48 PM, Steve Wise <swise@opengridcomputing.com>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Hey Doug,
> >>>>
> >>>> How should I submit changes to deprecate amso1100? The HW hasn't been
> >>> sold since 2005, and the SW has definite bit rot. Its time to remove it...
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks,
> >>>>
> >>>> Steve.
> >>>
> >>> Send me a git patch that uses git mv to move it to staging and we’ll leave it
> >>> there for a release or two and then remove it after that.
> >>
> >> Steve, "git format-patch -M" does a nice job creating a patch that can actually be looked at via email.
> >>
> >> http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=143593782206479&w=2
> >>
> >> For the Ipath driver I was going to send directly to the staging maintainer/list. Doug, should that come to you through linux-rdma
> instead?
> >
> > I sent an email to Greg K-H to ask that question. It doesn’t matter to me. If you want, send the email to this list and if I get a response
> from GKH that he wants to take it, I’ll just point him to it once he lands.
>
> I'll be sending these through to Linus (as agreed with Greg). However,
> the patches need a TODO file added to the driver directory when it is
> placed in the staging tree (that's a mandatory requirement of being in
> that tree). In this case, the TODO would just be to remove the driver
> as some point in time. That point it pretty arbitrary, but I would
> suggest removing the driver in the 4.6 merge window.

Sure. Will you create this file or do you want a patch from me?

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