From: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
To: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Cc: Himangi Saraogi <himangi774@gmail.com>,
lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
julia.lawall@lip6.fr
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] hwmon: Introduce the use of the managed version of kzalloc
Date: Tue, 20 May 2014 23:20:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140520232029.2631e56b@endymion.delvare> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140520200336.GA11723@roeck-us.net>
On Tue, 20 May 2014 13:03:36 -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 11:45:37PM +0530, Himangi Saraogi wrote:
> Applied to -next, just for the sake of it, but frankly that driver
> is screwed up so badly that it is pretty much unusable anyway.
> Almost all of its attributes are non-standard, and for most of them
> that is completely unnecsssary.
>
> Maybe we should create a to-be-removed list and put it there
> as first candidate.
The traditional way for this is to move the driver to drivers/staging,
mention a deadline in the commit message, and delete it after a few
releases if nobody steps up.
An alternative would be to contact the maintainer (or short of that,
the original contributor) of the driver for an update. Again, with a
deadline.
--
Jean Delvare
SUSE L3 Support
prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-20 21:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-20 18:15 [PATCH v2] hwmon: Introduce the use of the managed version of kzalloc Himangi Saraogi
2014-05-20 20:03 ` Guenter Roeck
2014-05-20 21:20 ` Jean Delvare [this message]
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