Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Tue, 2016-09-06 at 12:00 -0400, Jes Sorensen wrote: > >> Nothing wrong with these patches, however I intend to post a patch to >> remove this driver soon, so it's kind of a waste of your time to spend >> too many cycles on it. > > It might be useful to mark any drivers you're > planning on removing as "Obsolete" in MAINTAINERS. > > checkpatch will then emit a "don't waste your time" > message if anyone scans an obsolete driver/file. I see, wasn't aware of that. I did add a printk to it for 4.6 notifying users that the driver was going to go away. Jes
