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| author | Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc> | 2012-03-15 21:59:36 +0100 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2012-03-16 13:30:10 -0700 |
| commit | 7396bd9fa1f291423b6e9a262662a447cc3deb86 (patch) | |
| tree | 439f89f0403ff995c4c41b9c295e82e57129bfe2 /Documentation | |
| parent | 4bf34b8c6b10a154a7fb1fc20818e20a27d4a539 (diff) | |
usb/ub: deprecate & schedule for removal the "Low Performance USB Block" driver
Deprecate this driver. All devices which can be handled by this driver
can also be handled by the usb-storage driver.
Acked-By: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 11 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index a0ffac029a0..d5dc80f3035 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -524,3 +524,14 @@ Files: arch/arm/mach-at91/at91cap9.c Why: The code is not actively maintained and platforms are now hard to find. Who: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@atmel.com> Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com> + +---------------------------- + +What: Low Performance USB Block driver ("CONFIG_BLK_DEV_UB") +When: 3.6 +Why: This driver provides support for USB storage devices like "USB + sticks". As of now, it is deactivated in Debian, Fedora and + Ubuntu. All current users can switch over to usb-storage + (CONFIG_USB_STORAGE) which only drawback is the additional SCSI + stack. +Who: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc> |