Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 17 Dec 2007 10:09:53 -0800 | From | David Brownell <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2.6.24-rc5-mm 3/3] gpiolib: obsolete drivers/i2c/chips/pca9539.c |
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> Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 14:33:27 +0800 > From: "eric miao" <eric.y.miao@gmail.com> > > for the following reasons: > > 1. there is currently no known users of this driver > > 2. the functionality of this driver is well supported with the recent > proposed drivers/gpio/pca9539.c, using GPIO_LIB > > Signed-off-by: eric miao <eric.miao@marvell.com> > Acked-by: Ben Gardner <bgardner@wabtec.com> > --- > Documentation/i2c/chips/pca9539 | 47 -------- > drivers/i2c/chips/Kconfig | 10 -- > drivers/i2c/chips/Makefile | 1 - > drivers/i2c/chips/pca9539.c | 196 ----------------------------------
Jean, do you sign off on this? In any case I think this should be going through your I2C patches.
I'd be a trifle uneasy just deleting this, because it's possible there are *unknown* users ... and also because nobody's yet done a userspace interface to the gpiolib infrastructure. (It seems to be the usual case of nobody wanting such a thing quite enough to write the code.)
I'd be more comfortable marking it as obsolete and flagging it for removal a release or two after Eric's new version merges ... though maybe that's just paranoia.
- Dave
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