Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757037Ab0LIVNx (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Dec 2010 16:13:53 -0500 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:37603 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753609Ab0LIVNw (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Dec 2010 16:13:52 -0500 Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 13:13:37 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Andres Salomon Cc: Daniel Drake , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-geode@lists.infradead.org, Ben Gardner , Greg KH Subject: Re: [PATCH] cs5535: deprecate older cs5535_gpio driver Message-Id: <20101209131337.be92caf6.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20101209125737.065e91fd@queued.net> References: <20101209125737.065e91fd@queued.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.0.2 (GTK+ 2.20.1; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1840 Lines: 38 On Thu, 9 Dec 2010 12:57:37 -0800 Andres Salomon wrote: > The newer drivers/gpio/cs5535-gpio.c replaces > drivers/misc/cs5535_gpio.c. The new driver has been in the tree > for a little while, and has received some testing; it's time to mark > the old one as deprecated. I'm thinking removal around 2.6.40 would > be good, provided we're not missing critical functionality in the > newer driver. > > Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon > --- > Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 14 ++ > drivers/char/Kconfig | 9 - > drivers/char/Makefile | 1 - > drivers/char/cs5535_gpio.c | 259 ---------------------------- > drivers/staging/Kconfig | 2 + > drivers/staging/Makefile | 1 + > drivers/staging/cs5535_gpio/Kconfig | 11 ++ > drivers/staging/cs5535_gpio/Makefile | 1 + > drivers/staging/cs5535_gpio/TODO | 6 + > drivers/staging/cs5535_gpio/cs5535_gpio.c | 259 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > 10 files changed, 294 insertions(+), 269 deletions(-) > delete mode 100644 drivers/char/cs5535_gpio.c > create mode 100644 drivers/staging/cs5535_gpio/Kconfig > create mode 100644 drivers/staging/cs5535_gpio/Makefile > create mode 100644 drivers/staging/cs5535_gpio/TODO > create mode 100644 drivers/staging/cs5535_gpio/cs5535_gpio.c It seems logical (although not particularly useful) to use drivers/staging/ as the site for unstaging things as well, but is that something which we normally do? -- 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/