Re: deprecating amso1100

Doug Ledford
2015-07-29T14:28:29Z

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On 07/21/2015 04:45 PM, Doug Ledford wrote:
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>> On Jul 21, 2015, at 4:42 PM, Dalessandro, Dennis <dennis.dalessandro@intel.com> 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-7bPotxP6k4+P2YhJcF5u+vpXobYPEAuW@public.gmane.org>
>>> 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
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>> 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.

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Doug Ledford <dledford-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
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