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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org,
	Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Lino Sanfilippo <LinoSanfilippo@gmx.de>,
	Lior Dotan <liodot@gmail.com>,
	Christopher Harrer <charrer@alacritech.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: Remove slicoss driver
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2016 04:16:56 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161213121656.GC26657@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1481599927-22993-1-git-send-email-linux@roeck-us.net>

On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 07:32:07PM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> There is now a different driver for the slicoss devices in
> drivers/net/ethernet/alacritech/. That driver supports the same PCI
> device IDs as the driver in staging. Both drivers use the same
> configuration symbol (CONFIG_SLICOSS), which causes build failures
> for the staging driver. Presumably the driver in staging is obsolete
> and can be removed.
> 
> Cc: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch>
> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
> Cc: Lino Sanfilippo <LinoSanfilippo@gmx.de>
> Cc: Lior Dotan <liodot@gmail.com>
> Cc: Christopher Harrer <charrer@alacritech.com>
> Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
> ---
>  MAINTAINERS                       |    6 -
>  drivers/staging/Kconfig           |    2 -
>  drivers/staging/Makefile          |    1 -
>  drivers/staging/slicoss/Kconfig   |   14 -
>  drivers/staging/slicoss/Makefile  |    1 -
>  drivers/staging/slicoss/README    |    7 -
>  drivers/staging/slicoss/TODO      |   36 -
>  drivers/staging/slicoss/slic.h    |  573 -------
>  drivers/staging/slicoss/slichw.h  |  652 --------
>  drivers/staging/slicoss/slicoss.c | 3131 -------------------------------------
>  10 files changed, 4423 deletions(-)
>  delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/slicoss/Kconfig
>  delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/slicoss/Makefile
>  delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/slicoss/README
>  delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/slicoss/TODO
>  delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/slicoss/slic.h
>  delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/slicoss/slichw.h
>  delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/slicoss/slicoss.c

Odd, I already did this in my staging-next tree, which should be showing
up in linux-next, correct?  It's not merged into Linus's tree just yet,
give me a chance to get it to him please, I've been traveling. :)

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2016-12-13 12:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-12-13  3:32 [PATCH] staging: Remove slicoss driver Guenter Roeck
2016-12-13 12:16 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2016-12-13 16:53   ` Guenter Roeck

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