From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Subject: [PATCH/RFC] deprecate some drivers
Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 03:05:45 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <41AECCD9.40808@pobox.com> (raw)
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I'm looking to eliminate some horribly broken/dup drivers. Since 2.6 is
an ongoing matter, I want a 'flashing-red warning sign' that drivers
will soon be disappearing, rather than just killing the driver and
listening for the screams.
IPhase driver is broken+abandoned, and xirtulip is
broken+duplicate+abandoned, and are two prime candidates for my prefence
of handling this matter: CONFIG_DEPRECATED.
See patch for example.
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===== drivers/net/Kconfig 1.100 vs edited =====
--- 1.100/drivers/net/Kconfig 2004-11-05 05:37:26 -05:00
+++ edited/drivers/net/Kconfig 2004-12-02 02:57:56 -05:00
@@ -2544,7 +2544,7 @@
config IPHASE5526
tristate "Interphase 5526 Tachyon chipset based adapter support"
- depends on NET_FC && SCSI && PCI && BROKEN
+ depends on NET_FC && SCSI && PCI && BROKEN && DEPRECATED
help
Say Y here if you have a Fibre Channel adaptor of this kind.
===== drivers/net/tulip/Kconfig 1.12 vs edited =====
--- 1.12/drivers/net/tulip/Kconfig 2004-09-21 22:19:24 -04:00
+++ edited/drivers/net/tulip/Kconfig 2004-12-02 02:58:27 -05:00
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@
config PCMCIA_XIRTULIP
tristate "Xircom Tulip-like CardBus support (old driver)"
- depends on NET_TULIP && CARDBUS && BROKEN_ON_SMP
+ depends on NET_TULIP && CARDBUS && BROKEN_ON_SMP && DEPRECATED
select CRC32
---help---
This driver is for the Digital "Tulip" Ethernet CardBus adapters.
===== init/Kconfig 1.57 vs edited =====
--- 1.57/init/Kconfig 2004-10-27 16:16:47 -04:00
+++ edited/init/Kconfig 2004-12-02 02:59:27 -05:00
@@ -40,6 +40,20 @@
If unsure, say Y
+config IGNORE_DEPRECATED
+ bool "Elide drivers soon to be removed from the kernel"
+ default y
+ help
+ Select this option to avoid features and drivers
+ that will soon be removed from the kernel.
+
+ If unsure, say Y
+
+config DEPRECATED
+ bool
+ depends on !IGNORE_DEPRECATED
+ default y
+
config BROKEN
bool
depends on !CLEAN_COMPILE
next reply other threads:[~2004-12-02 8:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-12-02 8:05 Jeff Garzik [this message]
2004-12-02 21:36 ` [PATCH/RFC] deprecate some drivers Jim Nelson
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