From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andres Salomon <dilinger@queued.net>,
Daniel Drake <dsd@laptop.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-geode@lists.infradead.org,
Ben Gardner <bgardner@wabtec.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cs5535: deprecate older cs5535_gpio driver
Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 13:28:55 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101209212855.GA7029@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101209131337.be92caf6.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 01:13:37PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Dec 2010 12:57:37 -0800
> Andres Salomon <dilinger@queued.net> wrote:
>
> > The newer drivers/gpio/cs5535-gpio.c replaces
> > drivers/misc/cs5535_gpio.c. The new driver has been in the tree
> > for a little while, and has received some testing; it's time to mark
> > the old one as deprecated. I'm thinking removal around 2.6.40 would
> > be good, provided we're not missing critical functionality in the
> > newer driver.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@queued.net>
> > ---
> > Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 14 ++
> > drivers/char/Kconfig | 9 -
> > drivers/char/Makefile | 1 -
> > drivers/char/cs5535_gpio.c | 259 ----------------------------
> > drivers/staging/Kconfig | 2 +
> > drivers/staging/Makefile | 1 +
> > drivers/staging/cs5535_gpio/Kconfig | 11 ++
> > drivers/staging/cs5535_gpio/Makefile | 1 +
> > drivers/staging/cs5535_gpio/TODO | 6 +
> > drivers/staging/cs5535_gpio/cs5535_gpio.c | 259 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > 10 files changed, 294 insertions(+), 269 deletions(-)
> > delete mode 100644 drivers/char/cs5535_gpio.c
> > create mode 100644 drivers/staging/cs5535_gpio/Kconfig
> > create mode 100644 drivers/staging/cs5535_gpio/Makefile
> > create mode 100644 drivers/staging/cs5535_gpio/TODO
> > create mode 100644 drivers/staging/cs5535_gpio/cs5535_gpio.c
>
> It seems logical (although not particularly useful) to use
> drivers/staging/ as the site for unstaging things as well, but is that
> something which we normally do?
Yes, we are using staging to "age out" drivers from the kernel, as well
as filesystems, so this is fine with me.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-09 21:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-09 20:57 [PATCH] cs5535: deprecate older cs5535_gpio driver Andres Salomon
2010-12-09 21:13 ` Andrew Morton
2010-12-09 21:23 ` Andres Salomon
2010-12-09 21:28 ` Greg KH [this message]
2010-12-10 15:09 ` BGardner
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