Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752167AbbFZQyJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Jun 2015 12:54:09 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:34830 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751983AbbFZQyC (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Jun 2015 12:54:02 -0400 Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2015 09:54:01 -0700 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Cc: "Marciniszyn, Mike" , Borislav Petkov , Ingo Molnar , One Thousand Gnomes , Doug Ledford , "linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: Deprecating ipath Message-ID: <20150626165401.GA14699@kroah.com> References: <32E1700B9017364D9B60AED9960492BC257567C3@fmsmsx120.amr.corp.intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23+89 (0255b37be491) (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1474 Lines: 37 On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 09:23:27AM -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 9:17 AM, Marciniszyn, Mike > wrote: > > Doug, > > > > We have been given the go ahead to start the deprecation process for thie ipath driver. > > That's great! Do you mean removal from Linux? > > > What do I need to do to get that done? > > Feature removal txt file was removed from the kernel so there is no > "schedule" per se, not sure what the process these days is for driver > removal. How about punting it to staging for a release or two and then > remove it? Not sure if that would be frowned upon or welcomed. That is the process for driver removal, so of course it is welcomed :) > That would have the cost of moving history through directories but git > --follow helps with that these days. The gain of moving it to staging > IMHO would be that if anyone who might care would need to complain may > do so for a directory change for 1-2 release may spot this easily and > the issues would be much less than an immediate removal. Yes, that's why we do it this way. Mike, feel free to send me a patch for this if you want me to queue it up for 4.3. For 4.2 it's too late. thanks, greg k-h -- 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/