From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761350AbdACVUZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jan 2017 16:20:25 -0500 Received: from mout.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.133]:59063 "EHLO mout.kundenserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758537AbdACVUR (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jan 2017 16:20:17 -0500 From: Arnd Bergmann To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, Karsten Keil , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, Jonathan Corbet , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] isdn: i4l: move active-isdn drivers to staging Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2017 22:19:29 +0100 Message-ID: <3286019.I2UkVCJq41@wuerfel> User-Agent: KMail/5.1.3 (Linux/4.4.0-34-generic; KDE/5.18.0; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <20170103152436.GA26156@kroah.com> References: <1456945629-1793533-1-git-send-email-arnd@arndb.de> <1456945629-1793533-2-git-send-email-arnd@arndb.de> <20170103152436.GA26156@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:UuBPFszGj+DSq31vTZCOSv4s7Jr9GjPPO/nV1B5R+YZIZ/0ong5 bgYLRE9PxwYTQloW1fWg3CqKh+i8fOu5Vc6qTNJl41+kkT/RulyLPKXZWNIxvWzgHtXmE5Z v/g/N7dyF1e/R2YGZTZA/BNEcFwNehBUPovdV2ji5tD960uVy4JrGy7TUaJ4zxJYsOC0VeN BzO1ozt6CHIkbL1BvUH2g== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:5W2aMt7wAtg=:VfRfRd3baHnlRczkQS9O2i +BYD6Wyv+btQC9H4SD8pPF8HHQ7mgPzkN5gceETqxREofqMvhPiRaQtQ4gww4FXb3YQSvzNv/ HVEE6oAN3N4RBOyaig50vSSKQbvkZmH051A0j7VSe+IlhSefhbfV6LVJRilL6iqi/8/rIJScE mcAqdFU+ipEeo9ZYAy234AMl5bctrHtmOojdBHLKGQVCIrAMpSdZIGoRJA5n43F8LYaDRiWvS XtzjmzbJzznnJcrx3DqDBP7BastJR/6MNE6n8qM/OOeW3sw+bA7vpM0cSObu5Sr042v8jowsM kSkMw9O58QNcJF9IBtHqUbLFshsBTuk+8HZ/JHEnCknfUn++jm1BGs0l3HtpSyhFpY54ldB1z Tww1rPmgWTtTI5Xxj/DKG0hDEFQcuk+VcVvUqp5BN8qtep+MHNw1zkDO1RNojisxJ8JzVZwHw ECQ03x58MokijG3upb+TlvS15VdnYtAnTA3GkDJfH+us+namDH4lvMpC753a+4SyxA0UCfdkg ncpesHm1TkHOqMD1NUBoQfzu9YVO2xpnYONP3VuBgcvxGAkFq9RBMhuKBZ/qcC4/t0ddIkyro qa0fmwoaYe5Zr3vlr2JbYm3S0XurqfaiDYdCUM8Sub8mSBTfKbyBgaXHZKsg0Nwa5fQMuc6rf 80YRlcs3lWLd+AUdo2ii1nYcbNEIs5IrLGwmK00l1IaLFPzbf3SSzOc3T3ECHx4W3inwD0Muy uaNhf8VNdtTqNAYi Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tuesday, January 3, 2017 4:24:36 PM CET Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Wed, Mar 02, 2016 at 08:06:46PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > The icn, act2000 and pcbit drivers are all for very old hardware, > > and it is highly unlikely that anyone is actually still using them > > on modern kernels, if at all. > > > > All three drivers apparently are for hardware that predates PCI > > being the common connector, as they are ISA-only and active > > PCI ISDN cards were widely available in the 1990s. > > > > Looking through the git logs, it I cannot find any indication of a > > patch to any of these drivers that has been tested on real hardware, > > only cleanups or global API changes. > > > > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann > > Acked-by: Karsten Keil > > This patch got added in the 4.6 kernel release. As I am now taking > patches for 4.11-rc1, I figure it is time to just delete the > drivers/staging/i4l/ directory now, given that no one has really done > anything with it. If people show up that wish to maintain it, I'll be > glad to revert it, or if someone really screams in the next week. > Otherwise it's time to just move on Sounds good to me. My original series contained four more patches that I did not post again after there was some concern[1] that we did not come to a conclusion on: isdn: gigaset: remove i4l code isdn: move isdnhdlc out of i4l isdn: i4l: move hisax driver to staging isdn: move i4l to staging I can post those as well, at least I think the first two are helpful for untangling i4l from the rest of ISDN. I also still think that moving hisax and i4l to staging is reasonable given the state of that code, even if there are a couple of users today. Arnd [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/3/4/762 From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: arnd@arndb.de (Arnd Bergmann) Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2017 22:19:29 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 2/2] isdn: i4l: move active-isdn drivers to staging In-Reply-To: <20170103152436.GA26156@kroah.com> References: <1456945629-1793533-1-git-send-email-arnd@arndb.de> <1456945629-1793533-2-git-send-email-arnd@arndb.de> <20170103152436.GA26156@kroah.com> Message-ID: <3286019.I2UkVCJq41@wuerfel> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Tuesday, January 3, 2017 4:24:36 PM CET Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Wed, Mar 02, 2016 at 08:06:46PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > The icn, act2000 and pcbit drivers are all for very old hardware, > > and it is highly unlikely that anyone is actually still using them > > on modern kernels, if at all. > > > > All three drivers apparently are for hardware that predates PCI > > being the common connector, as they are ISA-only and active > > PCI ISDN cards were widely available in the 1990s. > > > > Looking through the git logs, it I cannot find any indication of a > > patch to any of these drivers that has been tested on real hardware, > > only cleanups or global API changes. > > > > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann > > Acked-by: Karsten Keil > > This patch got added in the 4.6 kernel release. As I am now taking > patches for 4.11-rc1, I figure it is time to just delete the > drivers/staging/i4l/ directory now, given that no one has really done > anything with it. If people show up that wish to maintain it, I'll be > glad to revert it, or if someone really screams in the next week. > Otherwise it's time to just move on Sounds good to me. My original series contained four more patches that I did not post again after there was some concern[1] that we did not come to a conclusion on: isdn: gigaset: remove i4l code isdn: move isdnhdlc out of i4l isdn: i4l: move hisax driver to staging isdn: move i4l to staging I can post those as well, at least I think the first two are helpful for untangling i4l from the rest of ISDN. I also still think that moving hisax and i4l to staging is reasonable given the state of that code, even if there are a couple of users today. Arnd [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/3/4/762