Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757341Ab0LIVcH (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Dec 2010 16:32:07 -0500 Received: from kroah.org ([198.145.64.141]:45860 "EHLO coco.kroah.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752971Ab0LIVcG (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Dec 2010 16:32:06 -0500 Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 13:28:55 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Andrew Morton Cc: Andres Salomon , Daniel Drake , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-geode@lists.infradead.org, Ben Gardner Subject: Re: [PATCH] cs5535: deprecate older cs5535_gpio driver Message-ID: <20101209212855.GA7029@kroah.com> References: <20101209125737.065e91fd@queued.net> <20101209131337.be92caf6.akpm@linux-foundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20101209131337.be92caf6.akpm@linux-foundation.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2099 Lines: 45 On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 01:13:37PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > 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? Yes, we are using staging to "age out" drivers from the kernel, as well as filesystems, so this is fine with me. 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/