Re: [PATCH] sk98lin: planned removal

[Andrew Morton]

On Wed, 7 Feb 2007 09:18:30 -0800 Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Document planned removal of sk98lin driver.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt |    7 +++++++
>  1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
> index 0ba6af0..d08a4af 100644
> --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
> @@ -325,3 +325,10 @@ Why:	Unmaintained for years, superceded 
>  Who:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@xxxxxxxxxx>
>  
>  ---------------------------
> +
> +What:   sk98lin network driver
> +When:   July 2007
> +Why:    In kernel tree version of driver is unmaintained. Sk98lin driver
> +	replaced by the skge driver. 
> +Who:    Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxx>
> +

People don't read that file.  I'd suggest the addition of a warning printk
to the driver's open() method.
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