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Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 17:54:37 +0000 From: Russell King <rmk+lkml@....linux.org.uk> To: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@...il.com> Cc: Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@...lub.uwaterloo.ca>, Jean Delvare <khali@...ux-fr.org>, Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>, i2c@...sensors.org, Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@...tstofly.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [i2c] [2.6 patch] some overdue I2C driver removal On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 12:43:00PM -0500, Jon Smirl wrote: > Hasn't their been a one year notice that these drivers were going to > be removed? How about removing them and putting them into a tarball on > the i2c web site with a note explaining about how they need to be > updated to use the gpio driver? Then if someone really wants to use > the old drivers they can use them out of tree. It hasn't been a year - they were added to feature-removal on May 1st. However, not all the relevant people were made aware of that fact. Yes, Deepak was copied on that message, but I think he's moved on to other things. On the other hand, Lennert (who is listed as IXP2000 maintainer) is completely unaware of these drivers being marked obsolete. -- Russell King Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of: - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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