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From: plagnioj@jcrosoft.com (Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD)
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 11:23:45 +0200
Subject: [PATCH v2 23/23] at91: Remove mAgic and ISI device code
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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.