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DateThu, 31 Jan 2008 21:02:29 -0800
FromGreg KH <>
SubjectRe: Feature Removals for 2.6.25 (USB driver api)
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What: USB driver API moves to EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL
When: February 2008
Files: include/linux/usb.h, drivers/usb/core/driver.c Why: The USB subsystem has changed a lot over time, and it has been possible to create userspace USB drivers using usbfs/libusb/gadgetfs that operate as fast as the USB bus allows. Because of this, the USB subsystem will not be allowing closed source kernel drivers to register with it, after this grace period is over. If anyone needs any help in converting their closed source drivers over to use the userspace filesystems, please contact the
linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net mailing list, and the developers there will be glad to help you out.
Who: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

This is queued up in my tree to go to Linus, see my previous post on lkml and the linux-usb mailing list about this topic.
thanks,

greg k-h



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