[2.6 patch] remove broken video drivers (v3)

[2.6 patch] remove broken video drivers (v3)

[Adrian Bunk]

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This patch removes some video drivers that:
- had already been marked as BROKEN in 2.6.0 three years ago and
- are still marked as BROKEN.

These are the following drivers:
- FB_CYBER
- FB_VIRGE
- FB_RETINAZ3
- FB_SUN3

Drivers that had been marked as BROKEN for such a long time seem to be
unlikely to be revived in the forseeable future.

But if anyone wants to ever revive any of these drivers, the code is
still present in the older kernel releases.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>

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Due to it's size, the patch is attached compressed.

This patch was already sent on:
- 24 Nov 2006

This patch obsoletes the following patches in -mm:
ioremap-balanced-with-iounmap-for-drivers-video-cyberfb.patch
ioremap-balanced-with-iounmap-for-drivers-video-retz3fb.patch
ioremap-balanced-with-iounmap-for-drivers-video-virgefb.patch

 drivers/video/Kconfig   |   46 
 drivers/video/Makefile  |    4 
 drivers/video/cyberfb.c | 2295 ------------------------------------
 drivers/video/cyberfb.h |  415 ------
 drivers/video/retz3fb.c | 1586 -------------------------
 drivers/video/retz3fb.h |  286 ----
 drivers/video/sun3fb.c  |  702 -----------
 drivers/video/virgefb.c | 2511 ----------------------------------------
 drivers/video/virgefb.h |  288 ----
 9 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 8130 deletions(-)





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Re: [2.6 patch] remove broken video drivers (v3)

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> This patch removes some video drivers that:
> - had already been marked as BROKEN in 2.6.0 three years ago and
> - are still marked as BROKEN.
> 
> These are the following drivers:
> - FB_CYBER
> - FB_VIRGE
> - FB_RETINAZ3
> - FB_SUN3
> 
> Drivers that had been marked as BROKEN for such a long time seem to be
> unlikely to be revived in the forseeable future.
> 
> But if anyone wants to ever revive any of these drivers, the code is
> still present in the older kernel releases.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>

Acked-By: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>

> This patch obsoletes the following patches in -mm:
> ioremap-balanced-with-iounmap-for-drivers-video-cyberfb.patch
> ioremap-balanced-with-iounmap-for-drivers-video-retz3fb.patch
> ioremap-balanced-with-iounmap-for-drivers-video-virgefb.patch

If possible, can these still be integrated first, to ease a future
resurrection?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

--
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[2.6 patch] remove broken video drivers (v4)

[Adrian Bunk]

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On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 11:30:58AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, Adrian Bunk wrote:
>...
> > This patch obsoletes the following patches in -mm:
> > ioremap-balanced-with-iounmap-for-drivers-video-cyberfb.patch
> > ioremap-balanced-with-iounmap-for-drivers-video-retz3fb.patch
> > ioremap-balanced-with-iounmap-for-drivers-video-virgefb.patch
> 
> If possible, can these still be integrated first, to ease a future
> resurrection?

Updated patch below.

> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
> 
> 						Geert

cu
Adrian


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This patch removes some video drivers that:
- had already been marked as BROKEN in 2.6.0 three years ago and
- are still marked as BROKEN.

These are the following drivers:
- FB_CYBER
- FB_VIRGE
- FB_RETINAZ3
- FB_SUN3

Drivers that had been marked as BROKEN for such a long time seem to be
unlikely to be revived in the forseeable future.

But if anyone wants to ever revive any of these drivers, the code is
still present in the older kernel releases.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Acked-By: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>

---

Due to it's size, the patch is attached compressed.

 drivers/video/Kconfig   |   46 
 drivers/video/Makefile  |    4 
 drivers/video/cyberfb.c | 2295 ------------------------------------
 drivers/video/cyberfb.h |  415 ------
 drivers/video/retz3fb.c | 1588 -------------------------
 drivers/video/retz3fb.h |  286 ----
 drivers/video/sun3fb.c  |  702 -----------
 drivers/video/virgefb.c | 2526 ----------------------------------------
 drivers/video/virgefb.h |  288 ----
 9 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 8147 deletions(-)


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