From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=3.0 tests=DKIMWL_WL_HIGH,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SIGNED_OFF_BY, SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED,URIBL_DBL_ABUSE_MALW autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE389C3524A for ; Tue, 4 Feb 2020 07:09:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89CB92087E for ; Tue, 4 Feb 2020 07:09:33 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1580800173; bh=scoweAY6anUw8k9z4VoD+ICWjo02gSzC10Rh6liDJfs=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:List-ID:From; b=I4sxmqZV5WygCgSJqicQ2ed6hMneEouR+toB6uVtwrApUZDpieriJPdHKLaoijF/7 pb6NKKO43538jUzR8RBPvFo8TFALJfsHQGC5sYY9WPs5qZt9gv6BHGSSNJ+vx14j3C TuAV88Pmftc//5qrkVp8TmIY7TFvM3OWgDCX/fvM= Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726706AbgBDHJc (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Feb 2020 02:09:32 -0500 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:54204 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1725834AbgBDHJc (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Feb 2020 02:09:32 -0500 Received: from localhost (unknown [167.98.85.149]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 5A28F2086A; Tue, 4 Feb 2020 07:09:29 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1580800169; bh=scoweAY6anUw8k9z4VoD+ICWjo02gSzC10Rh6liDJfs=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=hKO2dIXaArwgdWAM9HmMcFElchJGp6FfLH+JQv0mvebG6G1Tphb4/4ZEtaoWSpQzF 0CRyYtTVRgCSwEONIxEVOpm9fBgkJY2kxsFNxloRwwRONUoDm15uVOAfDa0BMNM6z6 N77RAxRplWp5eTl+PZCfy4C2JLSLK//B44vdO+4M= Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2020 07:09:27 +0000 From: "gregkh@linuxfoundation.org" To: Chris Packham Cc: "linux@roeck-us.net" , "devel@driverdev.osuosl.org" , "brandonbonaby94@gmail.com" , "julia.lawall@lip6.fr" , "paulburton@kernel.org" , "aaro.koskinen@iki.fi" , "yuehaibing@huawei.com" , "fw@strlen.de" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "willy@infradead.org" , "ddaney@caviumnetworks.com" , "bobdc9664@seznam.cz" , "sandro@volery.com" , "geert@linux-m68k.org" , "ivalery111@gmail.com" , "ynezz@true.cz" , "davem@davemloft.net" , "dan.carpenter@oracle.com" , "wambui.karugax@gmail.com" Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] staging: octeon: delete driver Message-ID: <20200204070927.GA966981@kroah.com> References: <20191210091509.3546251-1-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> <6f934497-0635-7aa0-e7d5-ed2c4cc48d2d@roeck-us.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Feb 04, 2020 at 04:02:15AM +0000, Chris Packham wrote: > I'll pipe up on this thread too > > On Tue, 2019-12-10 at 02:42 -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote: > > On 12/10/19 1:15 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > > This driver has been in the tree since 2009 with no real movement to get > > > it out. Now it is starting to cause build issues and other problems for > > > people who want to fix coding style problems, but can not actually build > > > it. > > > > > > As nothing is happening here, just delete the module entirely. > > > > > > Reported-by: Guenter Roeck > > > Cc: David Daney > > > Cc: "David S. Miller" > > > Cc: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" > > > Cc: Guenter Roeck > > > Cc: YueHaibing > > > Cc: Aaro Koskinen > > > Cc: Wambui Karuga > > > Cc: Julia Lawall > > > Cc: Florian Westphal > > > Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven > > > Cc: Branden Bonaby > > > Cc: "Petr Štetiar" > > > Cc: Sandro Volery > > > Cc: Paul Burton > > > Cc: Dan Carpenter > > > Cc: Giovanni Gherdovich > > > Cc: Valery Ivanov > > > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman > > > > Acked-by: Guenter Roeck > > Please can we keep this driver. We do have platforms using it and we > would like it to stay around. > > Clearly we'll need to sort things out to a point where they build > successfully. We've been hoping to see this move out of staging ever > since we selected Cavium as a vendor. Great, can you send me a patchset that reverts this and fixes the build issues and accept maintainership of the code? thanks, greg k-h