From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>, Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
Dominik Brodowski <linux@brodo.de>, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>,
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>,
Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>,
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>,
Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Subject: Re: Feature Removals for 2.6.25 (USB driver api)
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 21:02:29 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080201050229.GB23057@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1201829922.23523.68.camel@brick>
> ---------------------------
> Ping?
> What: USB driver API moves to EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL
> When: February 2008
> Files: include/linux/usb.h, drivers/usb/core/driver.c
> Why: The USB subsystem has changed a lot over time, and it has been
> possible to create userspace USB drivers using usbfs/libusb/gadgetfs
> that operate as fast as the USB bus allows. Because of this, the USB
> subsystem will not be allowing closed source kernel drivers to
> register with it, after this grace period is over. If anyone needs
> any help in converting their closed source drivers over to use the
> userspace filesystems, please contact the
> linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net mailing list, and the developers
> there will be glad to help you out.
> Who: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This is queued up in my tree to go to Linus, see my previous post on
lkml and the linux-usb mailing list about this topic.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-01 5:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-01 1:38 Feature Removals for 2.6.25 Harvey Harrison
2008-02-01 4:53 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-02-01 5:18 ` Harvey Harrison
2008-02-01 6:33 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-02-01 7:04 ` Harvey Harrison
2008-02-01 5:02 ` Greg KH [this message]
2008-02-01 7:08 ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-02-02 1:29 ` Nick Piggin
2008-02-03 10:44 ` Feature Removals for 2.6.25 - old NCR53C9x driver Boaz Harrosh
2008-02-14 2:49 ` Feature Removals for 2.6.25 Bill Davidsen
2008-02-14 2:55 ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-02-14 18:16 ` Bill Davidsen
2008-02-14 18:24 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-02-14 18:26 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-02-14 23:20 ` David Newall
2008-02-15 3:27 ` Rene Herman
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