RE: Deprecating ipath

[Dalessandro, Dennis]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-rdma-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-rdma-
> owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 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@xxxxxxxxx> 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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