linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] HID: roccat: Removing all modules except Kone

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Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1506181141150.12753@pobox.suse.cz>
Date:	Thu, 18 Jun 2015 11:42:19 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
To:	Stefan Achatz <erazor_de@...rs.sourceforge.net>
cc:	linux-api@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-input@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] HID: roccat: Removing all modules except Kone

On Thu, 16 Apr 2015, Stefan Achatz wrote:

> This patch removes all roccat hid modules except the one for the first Kone.
> 
> Package roccat-tools is the only known user of these modules. Starting with
> roccat-tools-2.2.0, released 7 months ago, I'm not using these modules
> anymore. All functionality has been moved to userspace using hidraw.

7 months means 2 or 3 major kernel releases, and no depreciation process 
has happened.

Could you please work on more user-friendly depreciation plan for these 
drivers?

Thanks,

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs
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