From: plagnioj@jcrosoft.com (Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 23/23] at91: Remove mAgic and ISI device code
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 11:23:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110428092345.GC3852@game.jcrosoft.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110428091919.GQ17290@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk>
On 10:19 Thu 28 Apr , Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 08:12:53AM +1200, Ryan Mallon wrote:
> > On 22/04/11 05:33, H Hartley Sweeten wrote:
> > > On Wednesday, April 20, 2011 10:42 PM, Ryan Mallon wrote:
> > >>
> > >> The AT572D940HF mAgic device and the AT91SAM9263 ISI device do not
> > >> have drivers yet and therefore the platform code in arch/arm/mach-at91
> > >> is unused and can be removed.
> > >
> > > Is anyone planning on adding these drivers?
> > >
> > > I wonder if it makes sense to add the infrastructure to devices.[ch] and
> > > convert the users even it the drivers are not in mainline yet?
> >
> > I removed them because there is currently a push to reduce the size of
> > the ARM tree. The ISI code has been there since 2008 and the mAgic
> > device code since 2009 without drivers. The ISI device at least is
> > supported on more than one variant, but only had code present for the
> > AT91SAM9263.
>
> If they've not been merged for two to three years, they probably aren't
> going to ever be merged. Removing them seems to be the right thing to
> do as they're not doing *anything* useful by remaining there.
>
> They should be kept as part of the patch series adding the drivers.
The driver for isi was send the last year IIRC but no time to rebase it again
I need to clean the architecture first so keep it make sense
Best Regards,
J.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-28 9:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-21 5:41 [PATCH v2 00/23] at91: Replace duplicate device initialisation code with Ryan Mallon
2011-04-21 5:41 ` [PATCH v2 01/23] at91: Add common devices framework Ryan Mallon
2011-04-21 5:41 ` [PATCH v2 02/23] at91: Make Ethernet device common Ryan Mallon
2011-04-21 23:02 ` H Hartley Sweeten
2011-04-25 20:16 ` Ryan Mallon
2011-04-26 4:35 ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2011-04-26 5:26 ` Ryan Mallon
2011-04-21 23:19 ` H Hartley Sweeten
2011-04-25 20:15 ` Ryan Mallon
2011-04-28 9:15 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-04-28 17:57 ` H Hartley Sweeten
2011-04-28 18:31 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-04-28 20:46 ` H Hartley Sweeten
2011-04-29 19:32 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2011-04-28 21:34 ` Ryan Mallon
2011-04-28 21:54 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-04-21 5:41 ` [PATCH v2 03/23] at91: Make USB OHCI/EHCI devices common Ryan Mallon
2011-04-21 5:41 ` [PATCH v2 04/23] at91: Make UDC device common Ryan Mallon
2011-04-21 5:41 ` [PATCH v2 05/23] at91: Make MMC " Ryan Mallon
2011-04-21 5:41 ` [PATCH v2 06/23] at91: Make NAND " Ryan Mallon
2011-04-21 5:41 ` [PATCH v2 07/23] at91: Make TWI " Ryan Mallon
2011-04-21 5:42 ` [PATCH v2 08/23] at91: Make SPI " Ryan Mallon
2011-04-21 5:42 ` [PATCH v2 09/23] at91: Make TCB " Ryan Mallon
2011-04-21 5:42 ` [PATCH v2 10/23] at91: Make RTT " Ryan Mallon
2011-04-21 5:42 ` [PATCH v2 11/23] at91: Make watchdog " Ryan Mallon
2011-04-21 5:42 ` [PATCH v2 13/23] at91: Make PWM " Ryan Mallon
2011-04-21 5:42 ` [PATCH v2 14/23] at91: Make SSC " Ryan Mallon
2011-04-21 5:42 ` [PATCH v2 15/23] at91: Make AC97 " Ryan Mallon
2011-04-21 5:42 ` [PATCH v2 16/23] at91: Make LCD controller " Ryan Mallon
2011-04-21 7:02 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2011-04-21 7:13 ` Ryan Mallon
2011-04-21 12:43 ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2011-04-21 5:42 ` [PATCH v2 17/23] at91: Make touchscreen " Ryan Mallon
2011-04-21 5:42 ` [PATCH v2 18/23] at91: Make HDMAC " Ryan Mallon
2011-04-21 5:42 ` [PATCH v2 19/23] at91: Make RTC " Ryan Mallon
2011-04-21 5:42 ` [PATCH v2 20/23] at91: Make high speed USB gadget " Ryan Mallon
2011-04-21 21:21 ` H Hartley Sweeten
2011-04-21 21:28 ` Ryan Mallon
2011-04-21 21:53 ` H Hartley Sweeten
2011-04-21 5:42 ` [PATCH v2 21/23] at91: Make compact flash " Ryan Mallon
2011-04-21 5:42 ` [PATCH v2 22/23] at91: Move at91sam9263 CAN device to common devices Ryan Mallon
2011-04-21 5:42 ` [PATCH v2 23/23] at91: Remove mAgic and ISI device code Ryan Mallon
2011-04-21 17:33 ` H Hartley Sweeten
2011-04-21 20:12 ` Ryan Mallon
2011-04-26 4:39 ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2011-04-26 5:30 ` Ryan Mallon
2011-04-28 9:19 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-04-28 9:23 ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD [this message]
2011-04-21 5:43 ` [PATCH v2 12/23] at91: Make UART devices common Ryan Mallon
2011-04-21 17:02 ` [PATCH v2 00/23] at91: Replace duplicate device initialisation code with H Hartley Sweeten
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