linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] staging: Remove slicoss driver

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Message-ID: <20161213165329.GA29124@roeck-us.net>
Date:   Tue, 13 Dec 2016 08:53:29 -0800
From:   Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
        Tobias Klauser <tklauser@...tanz.ch>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Lino Sanfilippo <LinoSanfilippo@....de>,
        Lior Dotan <liodot@...il.com>,
        Christopher Harrer <charrer@...critech.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: Remove slicoss driver

On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 04:16:56AM -0800, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 07:32:07PM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > There is now a different driver for the slicoss devices in
> > drivers/net/ethernet/alacritech/. That driver supports the same PCI
> > device IDs as the driver in staging. Both drivers use the same
> > configuration symbol (CONFIG_SLICOSS), which causes build failures
> > for the staging driver. Presumably the driver in staging is obsolete
> > and can be removed.
> > 
> > Cc: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@...tanz.ch>
> > Cc: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
> > Cc: Lino Sanfilippo <LinoSanfilippo@....de>
> > Cc: Lior Dotan <liodot@...il.com>
> > Cc: Christopher Harrer <charrer@...critech.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
> > ---
> >  MAINTAINERS                       |    6 -
> >  drivers/staging/Kconfig           |    2 -
> >  drivers/staging/Makefile          |    1 -
> >  drivers/staging/slicoss/Kconfig   |   14 -
> >  drivers/staging/slicoss/Makefile  |    1 -
> >  drivers/staging/slicoss/README    |    7 -
> >  drivers/staging/slicoss/TODO      |   36 -
> >  drivers/staging/slicoss/slic.h    |  573 -------
> >  drivers/staging/slicoss/slichw.h  |  652 --------
> >  drivers/staging/slicoss/slicoss.c | 3131 -------------------------------------
> >  10 files changed, 4423 deletions(-)
> >  delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/slicoss/Kconfig
> >  delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/slicoss/Makefile
> >  delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/slicoss/README
> >  delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/slicoss/TODO
> >  delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/slicoss/slic.h
> >  delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/slicoss/slichw.h
> >  delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/slicoss/slicoss.c
> 
> Odd, I already did this in my staging-next tree, which should be showing
> up in linux-next, correct?  It's not merged into Linus's tree just yet,
> give me a chance to get it to him please, I've been traveling. :)
> 

No problem. It was still in my copy of -next, so I thought it got lost.
Guess I should have updated it ;-). Sorry for the noise.

Guenter