From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from ozlabs.org (ozlabs.org [203.10.76.45]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "mx.ozlabs.org", Issuer "CA Cert Signing Authority" (verified OK)) by bilbo.ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8D60DB6F56 for ; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:56:09 +1000 (EST) Received: from bamako.nerim.net (bamako.nerim.net [62.4.17.28]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30F91DDD01 for ; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:56:08 +1000 (EST) Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:49:37 +0200 From: Jean Delvare To: Wolfram Sang Subject: Re: Removing deprecated drivers from drivers/i2c/chips Message-ID: <20090910124937.7b3df062@hyperion.delvare> In-Reply-To: <1252531371-14866-1-git-send-email-w.sang@pengutronix.de> References: <1252531371-14866-1-git-send-email-w.sang@pengutronix.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII 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 List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , 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 (also as most defconfigs are quite outdated).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