Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 31 Jan 2008 21:02:29 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: 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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