Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 21:02:29 -0800
From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
       David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>, Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>,
       Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
       Dominik Brodowski <linux@brodo.de>, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
       Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>,
       Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>,
       Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>,
       LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>, Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Subject: Re: Feature Removals for 2.6.25 (USB driver api)
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> ---------------------------
> Ping?
> What:	USB driver API moves to EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL
> When:	February 2008
> Files:	include/linux/usb.h, drivers/usb/core/driver.c
> Why:	The USB subsystem has changed a lot over time, and it has been
> 	possible to create userspace USB drivers using usbfs/libusb/gadgetfs
> 	that operate as fast as the USB bus allows.  Because of this, the USB
> 	subsystem will not be allowing closed source kernel drivers to
> 	register with it, after this grace period is over.  If anyone needs
> 	any help in converting their closed source drivers over to use the
> 	userspace filesystems, please contact the
> 	linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net mailing list, and the developers
> 	there will be glad to help you out.
> Who:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

This is queued up in my tree to go to Linus, see my previous post on
lkml and the linux-usb mailing list about this topic.

thanks,

greg k-h
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