linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] cs5535: deprecate older cs5535

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Message-Id: <20101209131337.be92caf6.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Thu, 9 Dec 2010 13:13:37 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Andres Salomon <dilinger@...ued.net>
Cc:	Daniel Drake <dsd@...top.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-geode@...ts.infradead.org, Ben Gardner <bgardner@...tec.com>,
	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cs5535: deprecate older cs5535_gpio driver

On Thu, 9 Dec 2010 12:57:37 -0800
Andres Salomon <dilinger@...ued.net> 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 <dilinger@...ued.net>
> ---
>  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?

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