Messages in this thread | | | From | "Dalessandro, Dennis" <> | Subject | RE: Deprecating ipath | Date | Fri, 3 Jul 2015 13:25:25 +0000 |
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> -----Original Message----- > From: linux-rdma-owner@vger.kernel.org [mailto:linux-rdma- > owner@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Greg Kroah-Hartman > Sent: Friday, June 26, 2015 12:54 PM > To: Luis R. Rodriguez > Cc: Marciniszyn, Mike; Borislav Petkov; Ingo Molnar; One Thousand Gnomes; > Doug Ledford; linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Subject: Re: Deprecating ipath > > On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 09:23:27AM -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 9:17 AM, Marciniszyn, Mike > > <mike.marciniszyn@intel.com> wrote: > > > Doug, > > > > > > We have been given the go ahead to start the deprecation process for > thie ipath driver. > > > > That's great! Do you mean removal from Linux? > > > > > What do I need to do to get that done? > > > > Feature removal txt file was removed from the kernel so there is no > > "schedule" per se, not sure what the process these days is for driver > > removal. How about punting it to staging for a release or two and then > > remove it? Not sure if that would be frowned upon or welcomed. > > That is the process for driver removal, so of course it is welcomed :) > > > That would have the cost of moving history through directories but git > > --follow helps with that these days. The gain of moving it to staging > > IMHO would be that if anyone who might care would need to complain > may > > do so for a directory change for 1-2 release may spot this easily and > > the issues would be much less than an immediate removal. > > Yes, that's why we do it this way. > > Mike, feel free to send me a patch for this if you want me to queue it up for > 4.3. For 4.2 it's too late. > > thanks, > > greg k-h > --
Greg, how would you like to consume that patch? There are a number of large files. We can break things up into a series and send through email. We could also post a repo somewhere that you can do a pull from. Something else?
Thanks
-Denny
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