linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] hwmon: Introduce the use of the managed version of kzalloc

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Date:	Tue, 20 May 2014 23:20:29 +0200
From:	Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.de>
To:	Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
Cc:	Himangi Saraogi <himangi774@...il.com>, lm-sensors@...sensors.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, julia.lawall@...6.fr
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] hwmon: Introduce the use of the managed version of
 kzalloc

On Tue, 20 May 2014 13:03:36 -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 11:45:37PM +0530, Himangi Saraogi wrote:
> Applied to -next, just for the sake of it, but frankly that driver
> is screwed up so badly that it is pretty much unusable anyway.
> Almost all of its attributes are non-standard, and for most of them
> that is completely unnecsssary.
> 
> Maybe we should create a to-be-removed list and put it there
> as first candidate.

The traditional way for this is to move the driver to drivers/staging,
mention a deadline in the commit message, and delete it after a few
releases if nobody steps up.

An alternative would be to contact the maintainer (or short of that,
the original contributor) of the driver for an update. Again, with a
deadline.

-- 
Jean Delvare
SUSE L3 Support
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