Messages in this thread | | | From | Jes Sorensen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/5] Some cleanup patches for drivers/staging/rtl8723au/core/rtw_mlme.c | Date | Tue, 06 Sep 2016 12:11:52 -0400 |
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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
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