On Sat, 2020-06-27 at 10:49 +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Sat, Jun 27, 2020 at 10:28:31AM +0200, Hans Verkuil wrote: > > On 27/06/2020 07:07, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > > A: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_post > > > Q: Were do I find info about this thing called top-posting? > > > A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. > > > Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? > > > A: Top-posting. > > > Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? > > > > > > A: No. > > > Q: Should I include quotations after my reply? > > > > > > http://daringfireball.net/2007/07/on_top > > > > > > On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 11:42:49AM -0400, B K KARTHIK PES2201800185STUDENT ECE DeptPESU EC Campus wrote: > > > > Oh, I'm sorry but wouldn't it be helpful if we had a file that lists > > > > all drivers that are scheduled for removal? > > > > > > The TODO file in the directory for the driver should have this > > > information in it. I don't know if all of the media drivers have this, > > > if not, then there is no way you could have known this. > > > > They have, and in addition the Kconfig entry will mention that the driver > > is deprecated. > > > > TODO of usbvision: > > > > The driver is deprecated and scheduled for removal by the end > > of 2020. > > > > In order to prevent removal the following actions would have to > > be taken: > > > > - clean up the code > > - convert to the vb2 framework > > - fix the disconnect and free-on-last-user handling (i.e., add > > a release callback for struct v4l2_device and rework the code > > to use that correctly). > > Ah, great, nevermind then! > > B K, your wish is already granted, the text is present, you just needed > to have noticed it :) > > greg k-h You should mark the entry in MAINTAINERS as obsolete so checkpatch tells people not to send patches. --- MAINTAINERS | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS index 04fceaee5200..7c136018d153 100644 --- a/MAINTAINERS +++ b/MAINTAINERS @@ -17906,7 +17906,7 @@ F: include/uapi/linux/uvcvideo.h USB VISION DRIVER M: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xxxxxxxxx> L: linux-media@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -S: Odd Fixes +S: Odd Fixes / Obsolete W: https://linuxtv.org T: git git://linuxtv.org/media_tree.git F: drivers/staging/media/usbvision/ _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
