Re: [2.6 patch] remove the obsolete raw driver

Adrian Bunk
2005-05-21T07:41:26Z

On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 06:25:05PM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> On Sat, May 21, 2005 at 02:19:25AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > Since kernel 2.6.3 the Kconfig text explicitely stated this driver was
> > obsolete.
> > It seems to be time to remove it.
> > Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
>
> 9 point releases is nowhere long enough. This removal needs to wait for
> similar amounts of time as other removed interfaces (c.f. devfs, which
> is far more offensive).
>
> In general there are staging rules for this sort of affair, and although
> I'm no expert in their fine points, nor can I even say what the exact
> criteria are, but it's rather clear in this instance it's over the line.
> I suspect a major release, planned as a staging ground for things like
> e.g. this and removing devfs, would be the most appropriate time for it.

The current rules are simply "put it for 6-12 months in
Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt and remove it then".

2.6.3 is more than a year go, and the date when the raw driver was
declared obsolete predates the introduction of
feature-removal-schedule.txt (at that time, we were still in the belief
a 2.7 kernel would come some day).

> -- wli

cu
Adrian

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