[PATCH] deprecate the old NCR53C9x driver

[PATCH] deprecate the old NCR53C9x driver

[Christoph Hellwig]

Now that we have the much better esp_scsi driver and low level drivers
are easy to port over deprecate the old NCR53C9x driver.

I've Cc'ed the m68k and mips lists because all but one bus glues are
for these platforms.  Chances stand bad for the remaining driver,
mca_53c9x which hasn't gotten any non-trivial update since it was
merge in late 2.1.x and whos maintainers mail address bounces.


Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

Index: linux-2.6/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt	2007-04-29 23:44:46.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt	2007-04-29 23:45:55.000000000 +0200
@@ -6,6 +6,13 @@ be removed from this file.
 
 ---------------------------
 
+What:	old NCR53C9x driver
+When:	October 2007
+Why:	Replaced by the much better esp_scsi driver.  Actual low-level
+	driver can ported over almost trivially.
+Who:	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
+	Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
+
 What:	V4L2 VIDIOC_G_MPEGCOMP and VIDIOC_S_MPEGCOMP
 When:	October 2007
 Why:	Broken attempt to set MPEG compression parameters. These ioctls are

Re: [PATCH] deprecate the old NCR53C9x driver

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Mon, 30 Apr 2007, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Now that we have the much better esp_scsi driver and low level drivers
> are easy to port over deprecate the old NCR53C9x driver.
> 
> I've Cc'ed the m68k and mips lists because all but one bus glues are
> for these platforms.  Chances stand bad for the remaining driver,
> mca_53c9x which hasn't gotten any non-trivial update since it was
> merge in late 2.1.x and whos maintainers mail address bounces.
> 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
> 
> Index: linux-2.6/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.orig/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt	2007-04-29 23:44:46.000000000 +0200
> +++ linux-2.6/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt	2007-04-29 23:45:55.000000000 +0200
> @@ -6,6 +6,13 @@ be removed from this file.
>  
>  ---------------------------
>  
> +What:	old NCR53C9x driver
> +When:	October 2007
> +Why:	Replaced by the much better esp_scsi driver.  Actual low-level
> +	driver can ported over almost trivially.
                  ^
		  be

> +Who:	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
> +	Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
> +
>  What:	V4L2 VIDIOC_G_MPEGCOMP and VIDIOC_S_MPEGCOMP
>  When:	October 2007
>  Why:	Broken attempt to set MPEG compression parameters. These ioctls are

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
							    -- Linus Torvalds

Re: [PATCH] deprecate the old NCR53C9x driver

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 03:16:39PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > +What:	old NCR53C9x driver
> > +When:	October 2007
> > +Why:	Replaced by the much better esp_scsi driver.  Actual low-level
> > +	driver can ported over almost trivially.
>                   ^
> 		  be

current linus' tree still has my spelling mistake.  Here's a patch to
update it:


Index: linux-2.6/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt	2007-05-13 21:46:38.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt	2007-05-13 21:46:44.000000000 +0200
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ Who:	Dan Dennedy <dan@dennedy.org>, Stef
 What:	old NCR53C9x driver
 When:	October 2007
 Why:	Replaced by the much better esp_scsi driver.  Actual low-level
-	driver can ported over almost trivially.
+	driver can be ported over almost trivially.
 Who:	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
 	Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>