From: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@gmail.com>
To: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org,
linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org, Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>,
uclinux-dist-devel@blackfin.uclinux.org,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] i2c/chips: Remove deprecated pcf8575-driver
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:52:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e2e108260909100352l2a30438fj9f0297c1974c0192@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1252531371-14866-3-git-send-email-w.sang@pengutronix.de>
On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 11:22 PM, Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de> wrote=
:
>
> The pcf8575-driver in drivers/i2c/chips which just exports its register t=
o
> sysfs is superseeded by drivers/gpio/pcf857x.c which properly uses the gp=
iolib.
> As this driver has been deprecated for more than a year, finally remove i=
t.
>
> Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
> Cc: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@gmail.com>
> Cc: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
> ---
> =A0Documentation/i2c/chips/pcf8575 | =A0 69 --------------
> =A0drivers/i2c/chips/Kconfig =A0 =A0 =A0 | =A0 18 ----
> =A0drivers/i2c/chips/Makefile =A0 =A0 =A0| =A0 =A01 -
> =A0drivers/i2c/chips/pcf8575.c =A0 =A0 | =A0198 -------------------------=
--------------
> =A04 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 286 deletions(-)
> =A0delete mode 100644 Documentation/i2c/chips/pcf8575
> =A0delete mode 100644 drivers/i2c/chips/pcf8575.c
This patch removes the documentation file
Documentation/i2c/chips/pcf8575 while there is no documentation under
Documentation/ for the drivers/gpio/pcf857x.c driver. Shouldn't proper
documentation for the pcf857x driver be added to the kernel tree
before the pcf8575 driver is removed ?
Bart.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-10 10:52 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 [this message]
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
2009-09-10 11:07 ` Wolfram Sang
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