Re: i2c-algo-ite and i2c-ite planned for removal

On Fri, 2006-06-16 at 22:29 +0200, Jean Delvare wrote:
Hi Pete,

So basically we have two drivers in the kernel tree for 5 years or so,
which never were usable, and nobody seemed to care.

For historical correctness, this driver was once upon a time usable,
though it was a few years ago. It was written by MV for some ref board
that had the ITE chip and it did work. That ref board is no longer
around so it's probably safe to nuke the driver.

In which kernel version? In every version I checked (2.4.12, 2.4.30,
2.6.0 and 2.6.16) it wouldn't compile due to struct iic_ite being used
but never defined (and possibly other errors, but I can't test-compile
the driver.)

Honestly, I don't remember. I think it was one of the very first 2.6
kernels because when MV first released a 2.6 product, 2.6 was still
'experimental'. It's quite possible of course that the driver was never
properly merged upstream in the community tree(s). But I do know that it
worked in the internal MV tree and an effort was made to get the driver
accepted upstream.

Pete

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