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SubjectRe: [PATCH] cs5535: deprecate older cs5535_gpio driver
On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 01:13:37PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Dec 2010 12:57:37 -0800
> Andres Salomon <dilinger@queued.net> wrote:
>
> > The newer drivers/gpio/cs5535-gpio.c replaces
> > drivers/misc/cs5535_gpio.c. The new driver has been in the tree
> > for a little while, and has received some testing; it's time to mark
> > the old one as deprecated. I'm thinking removal around 2.6.40 would
> > be good, provided we're not missing critical functionality in the
> > newer driver.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@queued.net>
> > ---
> > Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 14 ++
> > drivers/char/Kconfig | 9 -
> > drivers/char/Makefile | 1 -
> > drivers/char/cs5535_gpio.c | 259 ----------------------------
> > drivers/staging/Kconfig | 2 +
> > drivers/staging/Makefile | 1 +
> > drivers/staging/cs5535_gpio/Kconfig | 11 ++
> > drivers/staging/cs5535_gpio/Makefile | 1 +
> > drivers/staging/cs5535_gpio/TODO | 6 +
> > drivers/staging/cs5535_gpio/cs5535_gpio.c | 259 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > 10 files changed, 294 insertions(+), 269 deletions(-)
> > delete mode 100644 drivers/char/cs5535_gpio.c
> > create mode 100644 drivers/staging/cs5535_gpio/Kconfig
> > create mode 100644 drivers/staging/cs5535_gpio/Makefile
> > create mode 100644 drivers/staging/cs5535_gpio/TODO
> > create mode 100644 drivers/staging/cs5535_gpio/cs5535_gpio.c
>
> It seems logical (although not particularly useful) to use
> drivers/staging/ as the site for unstaging things as well, but is that
> something which we normally do?

Yes, we are using staging to "age out" drivers from the kernel, as well
as filesystems, so this is fine with me.

thanks,

greg k-h


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