From: Chris Packham <Chris.Packham@alliedtelesis.co.nz>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] staging: octeon: delete driver
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2020 04:02:15 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <da150cdb160b5d1b58ad1ea2674cc93c1fc6aadc.camel@alliedtelesis.co.nz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6f934497-0635-7aa0-e7d5-ed2c4cc48d2d@roeck-us.net>
I'll pipe up on this thread too
On Tue, 2019-12-10 at 02:42 -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On 12/10/19 1:15 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > This driver has been in the tree since 2009 with no real movement to get
> > it out. Now it is starting to cause build issues and other problems for
> > people who want to fix coding style problems, but can not actually build
> > it.
> >
> > As nothing is happening here, just delete the module entirely.
> >
> > Reported-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
> > Cc: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
> > Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
> > Cc: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org>
> > Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
> > Cc: YueHaibing <yuehaibing@huawei.com>
> > Cc: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@iki.fi>
> > Cc: Wambui Karuga <wambui.karugax@gmail.com>
> > Cc: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
> > Cc: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
> > Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
> > Cc: Branden Bonaby <brandonbonaby94@gmail.com>
> > Cc: "Petr Štetiar" <ynezz@true.cz>
> > Cc: Sandro Volery <sandro@volery.com>
> > Cc: Paul Burton <paulburton@kernel.org>
> > Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
> > Cc: Giovanni Gherdovich <bobdc9664@seznam.cz>
> > Cc: Valery Ivanov <ivalery111@gmail.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
>
> Acked-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Please can we keep this driver. We do have platforms using it and we
would like it to stay around.
Clearly we'll need to sort things out to a point where they build
successfully. We've been hoping to see this move out of staging ever
since we selected Cavium as a vendor.
WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Chris Packham <Chris.Packham@alliedtelesis.co.nz>
To: "linux@roeck-us.net" <linux@roeck-us.net>,
"gregkh@linuxfoundation.org" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
"devel@driverdev.osuosl.org" <devel@driverdev.osuosl.org>
Cc: "brandonbonaby94@gmail.com" <brandonbonaby94@gmail.com>,
"julia.lawall@lip6.fr" <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>,
"paulburton@kernel.org" <paulburton@kernel.org>,
"aaro.koskinen@iki.fi" <aaro.koskinen@iki.fi>,
"yuehaibing@huawei.com" <yuehaibing@huawei.com>,
"fw@strlen.de" <fw@strlen.de>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"willy@infradead.org" <willy@infradead.org>,
"ddaney@caviumnetworks.com" <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>,
"bobdc9664@seznam.cz" <bobdc9664@seznam.cz>,
"sandro@volery.com" <sandro@volery.com>,
"geert@linux-m68k.org" <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
"ivalery111@gmail.com" <ivalery111@gmail.com>,
"ynezz@true.cz" <ynezz@true.cz>,
"davem@davemloft.net" <davem@davemloft.net>,
"dan.carpenter@oracle.com" <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>,
"wambui.karugax@gmail.com" <wambui.karugax@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] staging: octeon: delete driver
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2020 04:02:15 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <da150cdb160b5d1b58ad1ea2674cc93c1fc6aadc.camel@alliedtelesis.co.nz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6f934497-0635-7aa0-e7d5-ed2c4cc48d2d@roeck-us.net>
I'll pipe up on this thread too
On Tue, 2019-12-10 at 02:42 -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On 12/10/19 1:15 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > This driver has been in the tree since 2009 with no real movement to get
> > it out. Now it is starting to cause build issues and other problems for
> > people who want to fix coding style problems, but can not actually build
> > it.
> >
> > As nothing is happening here, just delete the module entirely.
> >
> > Reported-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
> > Cc: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
> > Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
> > Cc: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org>
> > Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
> > Cc: YueHaibing <yuehaibing@huawei.com>
> > Cc: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@iki.fi>
> > Cc: Wambui Karuga <wambui.karugax@gmail.com>
> > Cc: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
> > Cc: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
> > Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
> > Cc: Branden Bonaby <brandonbonaby94@gmail.com>
> > Cc: "Petr Štetiar" <ynezz@true.cz>
> > Cc: Sandro Volery <sandro@volery.com>
> > Cc: Paul Burton <paulburton@kernel.org>
> > Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
> > Cc: Giovanni Gherdovich <bobdc9664@seznam.cz>
> > Cc: Valery Ivanov <ivalery111@gmail.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
>
> Acked-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Please can we keep this driver. We do have platforms using it and we
would like it to stay around.
Clearly we'll need to sort things out to a point where they build
successfully. We've been hoping to see this move out of staging ever
since we selected Cavium as a vendor.
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Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-12-10 9:15 [PATCH 1/2] staging: octeon: delete driver Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-12-10 9:15 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-12-10 9:15 ` [PATCH 2/2] staging: octeon-usb: delete the octeon usb host controller driver Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-12-10 9:15 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-12-10 19:31 ` Aaro Koskinen
2019-12-10 19:31 ` Aaro Koskinen
2019-12-10 20:19 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-12-10 20:19 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-12-10 21:27 ` Aaro Koskinen
2019-12-10 21:27 ` Aaro Koskinen
2019-12-11 7:42 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-12-11 7:42 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-02-04 4:06 ` Chris Packham
2020-02-04 4:06 ` Chris Packham
2020-02-04 7:15 ` gregkh
2020-02-04 7:15 ` gregkh
2020-02-04 7:21 ` Dan Carpenter
2020-02-04 7:21 ` Dan Carpenter
2019-12-10 10:42 ` [PATCH 1/2] staging: octeon: delete driver Guenter Roeck
2019-12-10 10:42 ` Guenter Roeck
2020-02-04 4:02 ` Chris Packham [this message]
2020-02-04 4:02 ` Chris Packham
2020-02-04 7:09 ` gregkh
2020-02-04 7:09 ` gregkh
2020-02-04 20:06 ` Chris Packham
2020-02-04 20:06 ` Chris Packham
2020-02-04 20:31 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-02-04 20:31 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-02-04 22:53 ` gregkh
2020-02-04 22:53 ` gregkh
2020-02-05 3:34 ` Dan Carpenter
2020-02-05 3:34 ` Dan Carpenter
2020-02-05 3:44 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-02-05 3:44 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-02-05 3:56 ` Guenter Roeck
2020-02-05 3:56 ` Guenter Roeck
2020-02-05 9:03 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2020-02-05 9:03 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2020-02-05 13:52 ` Guenter Roeck
2020-02-05 13:52 ` Guenter Roeck
2020-02-06 8:18 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2020-02-06 8:18 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2020-02-04 20:57 ` [SPAM] " Guenter Roeck
2019-12-10 11:40 ` Sandro Volery
2019-12-10 11:40 ` Sandro Volery
2019-12-10 12:01 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-12-10 12:01 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-12-10 12:54 ` Sandro Volery
2019-12-10 12:54 ` Sandro Volery
2019-12-10 19:46 ` Aaro Koskinen
2019-12-10 19:46 ` Aaro Koskinen
2019-12-10 20:15 ` Guenter Roeck
2019-12-10 20:15 ` Guenter Roeck
2019-12-10 21:48 ` Aaro Koskinen
2019-12-10 21:48 ` Aaro Koskinen
2019-12-10 22:48 ` Guenter Roeck
2019-12-10 22:48 ` Guenter Roeck
2019-12-11 7:22 ` Dan Carpenter
2019-12-11 7:22 ` Dan Carpenter
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