deprecate the old NCR53C9x driver
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PATCH 1/1 deprecate the old NCR53C9x driver
Now that we have the much better esp_scsi driver and low level drivers are easy to port over deprecate the old NCR53C9x driver.
I've Cc'ed the m68k and mips lists because all but one bus glues are for these platforms. Chances stand bad for the remaining driver, mca_53c9x which hasn't gotten any non-trivial update since it was merge in late 2.1.x and whos maintainers mail address bounces.
Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +7 -0
@@ -6,6 +6,13 @@ be removed from this file. --------------------------- +What: old NCR53C9x driver +When: October 2007 +Why: Replaced by the much better esp_scsi driver. Actual low-level + driver can ported over almost trivially. +Who: David Miller <[email protected]> + Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]> + What: V4L2 VIDIOC_G_MPEGCOMP and VIDIOC_S_MPEGCOMP When: October 2007 Why: Broken attempt to set MPEG compression parameters. These ioctls are
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Now that we have the much better
esp_scsidriver and low level drivers are easy to port over deprecate the old NCR53C9x driver.I've Cc'ed the m68k and mips lists because all but one bus glues are for these platforms. Chances stand bad for the remaining driver,
mca_53c9xwhich hasn't gotten any non-trivial update since it was merge in late 2.1.x and whos maintainers mail address bounces.Signed-off-by Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>Index:
linux-2.6/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
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Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt be removed from this file. · line 12
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-0@@ -6,6 +6,13 @@ be removed from this file. --------------------------- +What: old NCR53C9x driver +When: October 2007 +Why: Replaced by the much better esp_scsi driver. Actual low-level + driver can ported over almost trivially.
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Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt be removed from this file. · line 18
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Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +3
-0+Who: David Miller <[email protected]> + Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]> + What: V4L2 VIDIOC_G_MPEGCOMP and VIDIOC_S_MPEGCOMP When: October 2007 Why: Broken attempt to set MPEG compression parameters. These ioctls are
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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-0+What: old NCR53C9x driver +When: October 2007 +Why: Replaced by the much better esp_scsi driver. Actual low-level + driver can ported over almost trivially.^ be
current linus' tree still has my spelling mistake. Here's a patch to update it:
Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +1 -1
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ Who: Dan Dennedy <[email protected]>, Stef What: old NCR53C9x driver When: October 2007 Why: Replaced by the much better esp_scsi driver. Actual low-level - driver can ported over almost trivially. + driver can be ported over almost trivially. Who: David Miller <[email protected]> Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>