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

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Date:	Thu, 9 Dec 2010 13:28:55 -0800
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Andres Salomon <dilinger@...ued.net>,
	Daniel Drake <dsd@...top.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-geode@...ts.infradead.org, Ben Gardner <bgardner@...tec.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cs5535: deprecate older cs5535_gpio driver

On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 01:13:37PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 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?

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
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