Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 8 Jan 2006 13:57:00 +0100 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: [2.6 patch] no longer mark MTD_OBSOLETE_CHIPS as BROKEN and remove broken MTD_OBSOLETE_CHIPS drivers |
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On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 12:41:12PM +0000, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Sat, 2006-01-07 at 17:45 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Hey, Adrian isn't an MTD developer > > Indeed he is not. And while his minor nitpicks can sometimes be worth > the effort, it's less useful for him to start making value judgements > about removing drivers which have _theoretically_ been replaced by new > code, but which are actually still being used in some cases.
I interpreted your "or just removed" in [1] as your approval for a patch to remove the non-compiling drivers.
I'm not a native English speaker, and therefore I might have misunderstood your email.
What I want for 2.6.16 is to remove the wrong dependency of MTD_SHARP on BROKEN and the non-compiling drivers either still hidden under BROKEN or removed.
If there is any way I can submit a patch achieving this that would be acceptable for you simply tell how exactly you want this patch.
> > What he's doing here is to poke other maintainers into getting the tree > > cleaned up. It's a useful thing to do. > > I know what needs doing to clean the tree up -- and removing the older > chip drivers is very far from the top of my todo list. If you really > want to accelerate their demise, add a #warning and a printk saying "You > should no longer be using this driver -- try using jedec_probe or > cfi_probe instead and contact the linux-mtd list if that fails". >...
We are talking about drivers marked as BROKEN for one and a half years that do no longer compile.
> dwmw2
cu Adrian
[1] http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/12/12/43
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