Added all but patch 4 to the togreg branch of iio.git given the only reason this was held was the just merged series cleaning up the adis16400 driver (which included as a side effect removing the code patch 4 dealt with). On 11/30/2012 02:22 PM, Jonathan Cameron wrote: > sw_ring was the original buffer implementation for IIO. It kind of evolved > over a couple of late nights and even though I wrote it I was never > convinced it was right. Then a nice kfifo implementation came along > and in the vast majority of IIO use cases whether we have a kfifo or > a ring buffer is not as it turns out that important. > > We have been telling people not to use this for quite some time now. > Lets make that finally a really hard rule by dropping it. > There are 4 remaining users. This patch drops support form lis3l02dq > which had support for both this and kfifo. For the other 3 users > it simply switches over to kfifo. We haven't seen any real problems > doing this with any other driver so I can't see why these would cause > trouble! > > Note my aim for this cycle ist to greatly cut down what we have left > in staging by removing legacy cruft and getting other stuff cleaned up and > out! > > Jonathan > > Jonathan Cameron (5): > staging:iio:accel:lis3l02dq remove sw_ring support. > staging:iio:impedance-analyzer switch from sw_ring to kfifo. > staging:iio:meter:ade7758 switch from sw_ring to kfifo > staging:iio:imu: adis16400 switch from sw_ring to kfifo > staging:iio: drop sw_ring buffer implementation. > > drivers/staging/iio/Kconfig | 13 - > drivers/staging/iio/Makefile | 2 - > drivers/staging/iio/accel/Kconfig | 23 +- > drivers/staging/iio/accel/lis3l02dq.h | 8 - > drivers/staging/iio/accel/lis3l02dq_ring.c | 7 +- > drivers/staging/iio/impedance-analyzer/Kconfig | 2 +- > drivers/staging/iio/impedance-analyzer/ad5933.c | 8 +- > drivers/staging/iio/imu/Kconfig | 2 +- > drivers/staging/iio/imu/adis16400_ring.c | 12 +- > drivers/staging/iio/meter/Kconfig | 2 +- > drivers/staging/iio/meter/ade7758_ring.c | 12 +- > drivers/staging/iio/ring_sw.c | 366 ------------------------ > drivers/staging/iio/ring_sw.h | 30 -- > 13 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 464 deletions(-) > delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/iio/ring_sw.c > delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/iio/ring_sw.h > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-iio" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
