linux-kernel - Re: [2.6 patch] remove broken video drivers (v3)

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0611291130070.6335@pademelon.sonytel.be>
Date:	Wed, 29 Nov 2006 11:30:58 +0100 (CET)
From:	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>
cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	Michael Schmitz <schmitz@...l.biophys.uni-duesseldorf.de>,
	adaplas@....net, James Simmons <jsimmons@...radead.org>,
	Linux Frame Buffer Device Development 
	<linux-fbdev-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net>,
	Linux Kernel Development <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Roman Zippel <zippel@...ux-m68k.org>,
	linux-m68k@...r.kernel.org,
	Linux/PPC Development <linuxppc-dev@...abs.org>,
	Sam Creasey <sammy@...my.net>, sun3-list@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] remove broken video drivers (v3)

On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> This patch removes some video drivers that:
> - had already been marked as BROKEN in 2.6.0 three years ago and
> - are still marked as BROKEN.
> 
> These are the following drivers:
> - FB_CYBER
> - FB_VIRGE
> - FB_RETINAZ3
> - FB_SUN3
> 
> Drivers that had been marked as BROKEN for such a long time seem to be
> unlikely to be revived in the forseeable future.
> 
> But if anyone wants to ever revive any of these drivers, the code is
> still present in the older kernel releases.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>

Acked-By: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>

> This patch obsoletes the following patches in -mm:
> ioremap-balanced-with-iounmap-for-drivers-video-cyberfb.patch
> ioremap-balanced-with-iounmap-for-drivers-video-retz3fb.patch
> ioremap-balanced-with-iounmap-for-drivers-video-virgefb.patch

If possible, can these still be integrated first, to ease a future
resurrection?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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