From: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
To: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, uclinux-dist-devel@blackfin.uclinux.org,
linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: Removing deprecated drivers from drivers/i2c/chips
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:49:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090910124937.7b3df062@hyperion.delvare> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1252531371-14866-1-git-send-email-w.sang@pengutronix.de>
Hi Wolfram,
On Wed, 9 Sep 2009 23:22:47 +0200, Wolfram Sang wrote:
> continuing the quest to clean up and ultimately remove the drivers/i2c/chips
> directory, this patch series removes three drivers for GPIO-expanders which are
> obsoleted and marked as deprecated for more than a year. The newer (and better)
> drivers can be found in drivers/gpio.
>
> As it is ensured that the newer drivers cover the same i2c_device_ids, all
> platform_devices will still match. Some defconfig updates may be necessary
> though, but according to [1] this is left to the arch|platform-maintainers
> (also as most defconfigs are quite outdated). For that reason, I put the
> relevant arch-mailing-lists to Cc. Comments are welcome.
Looks very good, I'll apply the 3 patches removing the legacy drivers.
Not sure about the patch to drivers/gpio/pcf857x.c, as there is no gpio
tree and no maintainer either AFAIK, I guess I shall pick it too?
Thanks,
--
Jean Delvare
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-10 10:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-09 21:22 Removing deprecated drivers from drivers/i2c/chips Wolfram Sang
2009-09-09 21:22 ` [PATCH 1/4] gpio/pcf857x: copy i2c_device_id from old pcf8574-driver Wolfram Sang
2009-09-09 21:22 ` [PATCH 2/4] i2c/chips: Remove deprecated pcf8575-driver Wolfram Sang
2009-09-10 10:52 ` Bart Van Assche
2009-09-10 11:04 ` Wolfram Sang
2009-09-09 21:22 ` [PATCH 3/4] i2c/chips: Remove deprecated pca9539-driver Wolfram Sang
2009-09-09 23:28 ` Ben Gardner
2009-09-09 21:22 ` [PATCH 4/4] i2c/chips: Remove deprecated pcf8574-driver Wolfram Sang
2009-09-09 23:54 ` [Uclinux-dist-devel] Removing deprecated drivers from drivers/i2c/chips Mike Frysinger
2009-09-10 6:26 ` Wolfram Sang
2009-09-10 7:55 ` Mike Frysinger
2009-09-10 10:49 ` Jean Delvare [this message]
2009-09-10 11:07 ` Wolfram Sang
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