On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 01:47:29PM -0400, Don Dutile wrote: > Isn't there a better way to mark a driver deprecated? > > This kind of removal makes long-term maintenance of such drivers > painful in downstream distros, as API changes that are rippled from > core through all the drivers, don't update these drivers, and when > backporting such API changes to downstream distros, we have to +1 > removed drivers. You still have cxg3 as an enabled & supported driver? In RH8? Why? > It's much easier if upstream continues to update the drivers for > such across-the-driver-patch-changes. heck, add a separate patch > that punches out a printk stating DEPRECATED (dropping a patch to > backport is easy! :) ). The whole point of doing this is to avoid this work! Jason
