On 07/21/2015 04:45 PM, Doug Ledford wrote: > >> On Jul 21, 2015, at 4:42 PM, Dalessandro, Dennis >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: [email protected] [mailto:linux-rdma- >>> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Doug Ledford >>> Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2015 2:49 PM >>> To: Steve Wise >>> Cc: [email protected] >>> Subject: Re: deprecating amso1100 >>> >>> >>>> On Jul 21, 2015, at 2:48 PM, Steve Wise <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Hey Doug, >>>> >>>> How should I submit changes to deprecate amso1100? The HW hasn't been >>> sold since 2005, and the SW has definite bit rot. Its time to remove it... >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> >>>> Steve. >>> >>> Send me a git patch that uses git mv to move it to staging and weâll >>> leave it >>> there for a release or two and then remove it after that. >> >> Steve, "git format-patch -M" does a nice job creating a patch that can >> actually be looked at via email. >> >> http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=143593782206479&w=2 >> >> For the Ipath driver I was going to send directly to the staging >> maintainer/list. Doug, should that come to you through linux-rdma instead? > > I sent an email to Greg K-H to ask that question. It doesn’t matter to me. > If you want, send the email to this list and if I get a response from GKH > that he wants to take it, I’ll just point him to it once he lands.
I'll be sending these through to Linus (as agreed with Greg). However, the patches need a TODO file added to the driver directory when it is placed in the staging tree (that's a mandatory requirement of being in that tree). In this case, the TODO would just be to remove the driver as some point in time. That point it pretty arbitrary, but I would suggest removing the driver in the 4.6 merge window. -- Doug Ledford <[email protected]> GPG KeyID: 0E572FDD
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