From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1031350AbWFOU5U (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Jun 2006 16:57:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1031358AbWFOU5U (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Jun 2006 16:57:20 -0400 Received: from smtp-104-thursday.noc.nerim.net ([62.4.17.104]:26117 "EHLO mallaury.nerim.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1031350AbWFOU5T (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Jun 2006 16:57:19 -0400 Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 22:57:23 +0200 From: Jean Delvare To: linux-mips@linux-mips.org, LKML Subject: i2c-algo-ite and i2c-ite planned for removal Message-Id: <20060615225723.012c82be.khali@linux-fr.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.6 (GTK+ 2.6.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi all, I noticed today that we have an i2c bus driver named i2c-ite, supposedly useful on some MIPS systems which have an ITE8172 chip, which doesn't compile. It is based on an i2c algorithm driver named i2c-algo-ite, which doesn't compile either, due to some changes made to the i2c core which weren't properly reflected there. Going back trough the versions, I found that the bus driver was previously named i2c-adap-ite, and was introduced in 2.4.10. And I don't think it even compiled back then either, as it uses a structure (iic_ite) which isn't defined anywhere. So basically we have two drivers in the kernel tree for 5 years or so, which never were usable, and nobody seemed to care. It's about time to get rid of these 1296 lines of code, don't you think? So, unless someone volunteers to take care of these drivers, or otherwise has a very strong reason to object, I'm going to delete them from the tree soon. Thanks, -- Jean Delvare