From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751436AbaETVUf (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 May 2014 17:20:35 -0400 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:33309 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750835AbaETVUd (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 May 2014 17:20:33 -0400 Date: Tue, 20 May 2014 23:20:29 +0200 From: Jean Delvare To: Guenter Roeck Cc: Himangi Saraogi , 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 Message-ID: <20140520232029.2631e56b@endymion.delvare> In-Reply-To: <20140520200336.GA11723@roeck-us.net> References: <20140520181536.GA11483@himangi-Dell> <20140520200336.GA11723@roeck-us.net> Organization: SUSE Linux X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.9.3 (GTK+ 2.24.22; x86_64-suse-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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