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    SubjectRe: Feature Removals for 2.6.25 (USB driver api)
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    > Ping?
    > What: USB driver API moves to EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL
    > When: February 2008
    > Files: include/linux/usb.h, drivers/usb/core/driver.c
    > Why: The USB subsystem has changed a lot over time, and it has been
    > possible to create userspace USB drivers using usbfs/libusb/gadgetfs
    > that operate as fast as the USB bus allows. Because of this, the USB
    > subsystem will not be allowing closed source kernel drivers to
    > register with it, after this grace period is over. If anyone needs
    > any help in converting their closed source drivers over to use the
    > userspace filesystems, please contact the
    > linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net mailing list, and the developers
    > there will be glad to help you out.
    > Who: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

    This is queued up in my tree to go to Linus, see my previous post on
    lkml and the linux-usb mailing list about this topic.

    thanks,

    greg k-h


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