Re: [PATCH] deprecate the old NCR53C9x driver

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On Mon, 30 Apr 2007, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Now that we have the much better esp_scsi driver and low level drivers
> are easy to port over deprecate the old NCR53C9x driver.
> 
> I've Cc'ed the m68k and mips lists because all but one bus glues are
> for these platforms.  Chances stand bad for the remaining driver,
> mca_53c9x which hasn't gotten any non-trivial update since it was
> merge in late 2.1.x and whos maintainers mail address bounces.
> 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
> 
> Index: linux-2.6/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.orig/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt	2007-04-29 23:44:46.000000000 +0200
> +++ linux-2.6/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt	2007-04-29 23:45:55.000000000 +0200
> @@ -6,6 +6,13 @@ be removed from this file.
>  
>  ---------------------------
>  
> +What:	old NCR53C9x driver
> +When:	October 2007
> +Why:	Replaced by the much better esp_scsi driver.  Actual low-level
> +	driver can ported over almost trivially.
                  ^
		  be

> +Who:	David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> +	Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
> +
>  What:	V4L2 VIDIOC_G_MPEGCOMP and VIDIOC_S_MPEGCOMP
>  When:	October 2007
>  Why:	Broken attempt to set MPEG compression parameters. These ioctls are

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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