Old api files, rewrite or delete?

Old api files, rewrite or delete?

[Jiri Slaby]

Hi.
I'm interested mainly in things that may be removed. I don't want to 
rewrite drivers, which nobody uses.
Thanks for your opinion and knowledge about usage.

I was searching for pci_find_device, so changes to do may not be huge,
only few lines in some cases could be everything what to do.
the result is:

REWRITE:
drivers/media/video/bttv-cards.c
drivers/media/video/zoran_card.c
drivers/media/video/stradis.c
drivers/media/radio/radio-maestro.c
drivers/video/sis/sis_main.c
drivers/video/igafb.c
drivers/net/skfp/drvfbi.c
drivers/net/sunhme.c
drivers/net/gt96100eth.c
drivers/char/watchdog/i8xx_tco.c
drivers/char/watchdog/alim1535_wdt.c
drivers/char/watchdog/alim7101_wdt.c
drivers/char/watchdog/i6300esb.c
drivers/char/sx.c
drivers/char/istallion.c
drivers/char/mxser.c
drivers/char/rocket.c
drivers/char/stallion.c
drivers/char/specialix.c
drivers/char/ip2main.c
drivers/isdn/hisax/gazel.c
drivers/isdn/hisax/elsa.c
drivers/isdn/hisax/nj_u.c
drivers/isdn/hisax/nj_s.c
drivers/isdn/hisax/avm_pci.c
drivers/isdn/hisax/bkm_a4t.c
drivers/isdn/hisax/hfc_pci.c
drivers/isdn/hisax/telespci.c
drivers/isdn/hisax/enternow_pci.c
drivers/isdn/hisax/bkm_a8.c
drivers/isdn/hisax/w6692.c
drivers/isdn/hisax/diva.c
drivers/isdn/hisax/sedlbauer.c
drivers/isdn/hisax/niccy.c
drivers/isdn/hysdn/hysdn_init.c
drivers/scsi/cpqfcTSinit.c
drivers/scsi/initio.c
drivers/scsi/advansys.c
drivers/scsi/gdth.c
drivers/scsi/eata_pio.c
drivers/scsi/fdomain.c
drivers/scsi/qlogicfc.c
drivers/scsi/dpt_i2o.c
drivers/scsi/qlogicisp.c
drivers/scsi/aic7xxx_old.c
drivers/scsi/BusLogic.c
drivers/parport/parport_pc.c
drivers/mtd/devices/pmc551.c
drivers/mtd/maps/ichxrom.c
drivers/mtd/maps/amd76xrom.c
drivers/mtd/maps/scx200_docflash.c
drivers/mtd/maps/l440gx.c
drivers/ide/pci/serverworks.c
drivers/ide/pci/piix.c
drivers/ide/pci/cs5530.c
drivers/ide/pci/alim15x3.c
drivers/ide/pci/sis5513.c
drivers/ide/pci/pdc202xx_new.c
drivers/ide/pci/via82cxxx.c
drivers/ide/pci/hpt366.c
drivers/ide/setup-pci.c
drivers/macintosh/via-pmu68k.c
drivers/macintosh/via-pmu.c
drivers/telephony/ixj.c
arch/ppc/kernel/pci.c
arch/ppc/platforms/85xx/mpc85xx_cds_common.c
arch/sparc64/kernel/ebus.c
arch/alpha/kernel/sys_sio.c
arch/alpha/kernel/sys_alcor.c
arch/frv/mb93090-mb00/pci-frv.c
arch/frv/mb93090-mb00/pci-irq.c
include/asm-i386/ide.h
sound/pci/cs46xx/cs46xx_lib.c
sound/pci/au88x0/au88x0.c
sound/pci/via82xx.c
sound/pci/ali5451/ali5451.c
sound/core/memalloc.c

LET IT BE (and then delete):
sound/oss/esssolo1.c
sound/oss/via82cxxx_audio.c
sound/oss/trident.c
sound/oss/maestro.c
sound/oss/cs46xx.c

REMOVE:
drivers/video/pm3fb.c

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Jiri Slaby         www.fi.muni.cz/~xslaby
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Re: Old api files, rewrite or delete?

[Russell King]

On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 02:00:05PM +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> drivers/parport/parport_pc.c

I think a fair number of people probably use this.

> REMOVE:
> drivers/video/pm3fb.c

I have one of these cards, and I believe it's only recently (2.5-ish)
been merged.  Why are you so keen to mark it as "remove"?

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:  2.6 Serial core

Re: Old api files, rewrite or delete?

[Jiri Slaby]

Russell King napsal(a):

>On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 02:00:05PM +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote:
>  
>
>>drivers/parport/parport_pc.c
>>    
>>
>
>I think a fair number of people probably use this.
>  
>
Yeah, I use it too, i don't know, why am I asking for this.

>>REMOVE:
>>drivers/video/pm3fb.c
>>    
>>
>
>I have one of these cards, and I believe it's only recently (2.5-ish)
>been merged.  Why are you so keen to mark it as "remove"?
>  
>
Because it doesn't work for me (it doesn't compile) and it is marked as 
"broken".
Where are files fbcon-cfb{2,4,8,16,24,32}.h? Do you need some additional 
packages?
-- then a few lines should be added to Kconfig.

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Jiri Slaby         www.fi.muni.cz/~xslaby
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Re: Old api files, rewrite or delete?

[Adrian Bunk]

On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 02:00:05PM +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote:

> Hi.
> I'm interested mainly in things that may be removed. I don't want to 
> rewrite drivers, which nobody uses.
> Thanks for your opinion and knowledge about usage.
>...

There might be users for many of the listed drivers - even if there are 
only very few.

And what do you really gain by removing drivers?

cu
Adrian

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Re: Old api files, rewrite or delete?

[Jiri Slaby]

Adrian Bunk napsal(a):

>On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 02:00:05PM +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote:
>  
>
>
>There might be users for many of the listed drivers - even if there are 
>only very few.
>
>And what do you really gain by removing drivers?
>  
>
Nothing, I don't only want to rewrite driver, which others do not use.

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Jiri Slaby         www.fi.muni.cz/~xslaby
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Re: Old api files, rewrite or delete?

[Jan Engelhardt]

> Nothing, I don't only want to rewrite driver, which others do not use.

Why rewrite? (unless it's an important api change) If it's some optimization 
patch that requires an almost-rewrite, well, do it and see if it gets 
accepted.



Jan Engelhardt
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