Re: Deprecating ipath

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 09:23:27AM -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 9:17 AM, Marciniszyn, Mike
> <mike.marciniszyn@intel.com> wrote:
> > Doug,
> >
> > We have been given the go ahead to start the deprecation process for thie ipath driver.
> 
> That's great! Do you mean removal from Linux?
> 
> > What do I need to do to get that done?
> 
> Feature removal txt file was removed from the kernel so there is no
> "schedule" per se, not sure what the process these days is for driver
> removal. How about punting it to staging for a release or two and then
> remove it? Not sure if that would be frowned upon or welcomed.

That is the process for driver removal, so of course it is welcomed :)

> That would have the cost of moving history through directories but git
> --follow helps with that these days. The gain of moving it to staging
> IMHO would be that if anyone who might care would need to complain may
> do so for a directory change for 1-2 release may spot this easily and
> the issues would be much less than an immediate removal.

Yes, that's why we do it this way.

Mike, feel free to send me a patch for this if you want me to queue it
up for 4.3.  For 4.2 it's too late.

thanks,

greg k-h