Re: deprecating amso1100

Doug Ledford
2015-07-29T14:34:50Z

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On 07/29/2015 10:31 AM, Steve Wise wrote:
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>> -----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:
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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@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.
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> Sure. Will you create this file or do you want a patch from me?

If you don't mind, resubmit please.

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