> -----Original Message----- > From: Doug Ledford [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2015 9:28 AM > To: Dennis Dalessandro > Cc: Steve Wise; [email protected] > Subject: Re: deprecating amso1100 > > 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 we’ll > >>> 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.
Sure. Will you create this file or do you want a patch from me? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
