Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] extcon: Add fsa9480 extcon driver

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 11:28:11AM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 21, 2019 at 12:14 PM Paweł Chmiel
> <pawel.mikolaj.chmiel@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > This small patchset adds support for Fairchild Semiconductor FSA9480
> > microUSB switch.
> >
> > It has been tested on Samsung Galaxy S and Samsung Fascinate 4G,
> > but it can be found also on other Samsung Aries (s5pv210) based devices.
> >
> > Tomasz Figa (2):
> >   dt-bindings: extcon: Add support for fsa9480 switch
> >   extcon: Add fsa9480 extcon driver
> 
> This is surely an important driver since almost all elder Samsung
> mobiles use this kind of switch. So
> Acked-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
> 
> This driver I see is already sent to Greg for inclusion in the next kernel.
> I just wonder if you guys are even aware of this driver for the same
> hardware added by Donggeun Kim in 2011:
> drivers/misc/fsa9480.c
> 
> That said I am all for pulling in this new driver because it is surely
> better and supports device tree.
> 
> But can we please also send Greg a patch to delete the old driver
> so we don't have two of them now?
> 
> The old driver have no in-tree users so it can be deleted without
> side effects. Out-of-tree users can certainly adapt to the new
> extcon driver.
> 
> If you want I can send a deletion patch for the misc driver?

Please, I'll gladly take a patch that deletes code :)

thanks,

greg k-h