On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 09:23:27AM -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 9:17 AM, Marciniszyn, Mike > <mike.marciniszyn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Doug, > > > > We have been given the go ahead to start the deprecation process for thie ipath driver. > > That's great! Do you mean removal from Linux? > > > What do I need to do to get that done? > > Feature removal txt file was removed from the kernel so there is no > "schedule" per se, not sure what the process these days is for driver > removal. How about punting it to staging for a release or two and then > remove it? Not sure if that would be frowned upon or welcomed. That is the process for driver removal, so of course it is welcomed :) > That would have the cost of moving history through directories but git > --follow helps with that these days. The gain of moving it to staging > IMHO would be that if anyone who might care would need to complain may > do so for a directory change for 1-2 release may spot this easily and > the issues would be much less than an immediate removal. Yes, that's why we do it this way. Mike, feel free to send me a patch for this if you want me to queue it up for 4.3. For 4.2 it's too late. thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
