linux-kernel - [2.6 patch] remove broken video drivers (v4)

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Date:	Tue, 12 Dec 2006 14:36:20 +0100
From:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>
To:	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
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: [2.6 patch] remove broken video drivers (v4)

On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 11:30:58AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, Adrian Bunk wrote:
>...
> > 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?

Updated patch below.

> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
> 
> 						Geert

cu
Adrian


<--  snip  -->


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>

---

Due to it's size, the patch is attached compressed.

 drivers/video/Kconfig   |   46 
 drivers/video/Makefile  |    4 
 drivers/video/cyberfb.c | 2295 ------------------------------------
 drivers/video/cyberfb.h |  415 ------
 drivers/video/retz3fb.c | 1588 -------------------------
 drivers/video/retz3fb.h |  286 ----
 drivers/video/sun3fb.c  |  702 -----------
 drivers/video/virgefb.c | 2526 ----------------------------------------
 drivers/video/virgefb.h |  288 ----
 9 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 8147 deletions(-)


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