From: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Cc: Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>,
Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>, Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>,
i2c@lm-sensors.org, Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [i2c] [2.6 patch] some overdue I2C driver removal
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 17:54:37 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071128175437.GA1774@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9e4733910711280943t75564912m805cfdb2fe099528@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 12:43:00PM -0500, Jon Smirl wrote:
> Hasn't their been a one year notice that these drivers were going to
> be removed? How about removing them and putting them into a tarball on
> the i2c web site with a note explaining about how they need to be
> updated to use the gpio driver? Then if someone really wants to use
> the old drivers they can use them out of tree.
It hasn't been a year - they were added to feature-removal on May 1st.
However, not all the relevant people were made aware of that fact.
Yes, Deepak was copied on that message, but I think he's moved on to
other things. On the other hand, Lennert (who is listed as IXP2000
maintainer) is completely unaware of these drivers being marked
obsolete.
--
Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of:
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-28 18:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-24 16:25 [2.6 patch] some overdue I2C driver removal Adrian Bunk
2007-10-24 16:43 ` Lennart Sorensen
2007-11-28 10:23 ` Jean Delvare
2007-11-28 17:30 ` Lennart Sorensen
2007-11-28 17:43 ` [i2c] " Jon Smirl
2007-11-28 17:53 ` Jean Delvare
2007-11-28 17:54 ` Russell King [this message]
2007-11-28 19:04 ` Lennart Sorensen
2007-11-28 17:41 ` Russell King
2007-11-28 18:37 ` Lennert Buytenhek
2007-11-28 19:07 ` Jean Delvare
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