lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2016]   [Sep]   [6]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
    /
    From
    SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/5] Some cleanup patches for drivers/staging/rtl8723au/core/rtw_mlme.c
    Date
    Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> writes:
    > On Tue, 2016-09-06 at 12:00 -0400, Jes Sorensen wrote:
    >
    >> Nothing wrong with these patches, however I intend to post a patch to
    >> remove this driver soon, so it's kind of a waste of your time to spend
    >> too many cycles on it.
    >
    > It might be useful to mark any drivers you're
    > planning on removing as "Obsolete" in MAINTAINERS.
    >
    > checkpatch will then emit a "don't waste your time"
    > message if anyone scans an obsolete driver/file.

    I see, wasn't aware of that. I did add a printk to it for 4.6 notifying
    users that the driver was going to go away.

    Jes

    \
     
     \ /
      Last update: 2016-09-17 09:58    [W:2.343 / U:0.424 seconds]
    ©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site