Re: [RFC PATCH 3/3] drivers: misc: ti-st: begin to deorbit

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Sun, Nov 26, 2023 at 08:18:40PM +0100, Andreas Kemnade wrote:
> The TI-ST driver seems not to be used anymore. For bluetooth needs
> there is hci_ll.c which has device tree support and can work without
> this one. Also firmware download support is there, so it is also not needed
> here. GPS can also reuse parts of the framework in hci_ll
> 
> Contrary from this driver, device tree support has been removed.
> 
> So start deorbiting it by marking it as broken.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andreas Kemnade <andreas@kemnade.info>
> ---
>  drivers/misc/ti-st/Kconfig | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/misc/ti-st/Kconfig b/drivers/misc/ti-st/Kconfig
> index 1503a6496f632..6bf9cc845745c 100644
> --- a/drivers/misc/ti-st/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/misc/ti-st/Kconfig
> @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ menu "Texas Instruments shared transport line discipline"
>  config TI_ST
>  	tristate "Shared transport core driver"
>  	depends on NET && TTY
> -	depends on GPIOLIB || COMPILE_TEST
> +	depends on GPIOLIB || COMPILE_TEST || BROKEN

Why not just delete it?  Why have it stick around any longer?

thanks,

greg k-h