Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932156AbbFRJmk (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Jun 2015 05:42:40 -0400 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:54590 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753667AbbFRJmW (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Jun 2015 05:42:22 -0400 Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2015 11:42:19 +0200 (CEST) From: Jiri Kosina To: Stefan Achatz cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-input@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] HID: roccat: Removing all modules except Kone In-Reply-To: <1429202372.2351.6.camel@neuromancer.tessier-ashpool> Message-ID: References: <1429202372.2351.6.camel@neuromancer.tessier-ashpool> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LNX 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 800 Lines: 24 On Thu, 16 Apr 2015, Stefan Achatz wrote: > This patch removes all roccat hid modules except the one for the first Kone. > > Package roccat-tools is the only known user of these modules. Starting with > roccat-tools-2.2.0, released 7 months ago, I'm not using these modules > anymore. All functionality has been moved to userspace using hidraw. 7 months means 2 or 3 major kernel releases, and no depreciation process has happened. Could you please work on more user-friendly depreciation plan for these drivers? Thanks, -- Jiri Kosina SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/