From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S935108AbaEaDBA (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 May 2014 23:01:00 -0400 Received: from cdptpa-outbound-snat.email.rr.com ([107.14.166.228]:58486 "EHLO cdptpa-oedge-vip.email.rr.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S935069AbaEaDA6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 May 2014 23:00:58 -0400 Date: Fri, 30 May 2014 23:00:56 -0400 From: Steven Rostedt To: Sune =?iso-8859-1?Q?M=F8lgaard?= Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Subject: Re: [RFC] Summarizing deprecations Message-ID: <20140531030055.GA8362@home.goodmis.org> References: <53893895.3040202@molgaard.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <53893895.3040202@molgaard.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-RR-Connecting-IP: 107.14.168.118:25 X-Cloudmark-Score: 0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 04:04:05AM +0200, Sune Mølgaard wrote: > > As a user first, and only secondly a developer, I'd like my HW to work, > and finding fully supported gear can still be hard if not impossible, > but I imagine that if we had a central place to list deprecations (and, > possibly, "victims" of them), a lot of grief could be avoided by simply > pointing vendors to that central resource and saying "here is what you > need to know for your driver to keep working - now get to it". We had that. It was in the Documentation directory called "feature-removal.txt". But that was always out of date and caused lots of unnecessary conflicts by the few that added stuff to it that it became more of a pain to have than it was worth. And commit 9c0ece069b32e8e122aea71aa47181c10eb85ba7 nuked it. -- Steve