Re: [PATCH] crypto: qce - Remove driver

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Fri, Jul 24, 2026 at 02:47:48PM +0000, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Jul 2026 16:14:14 +0200, Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org> said:
> >
> > And with the defaults QCE is *never* used.
> >
> 
> It's almost EOD here and I'm going to disconnect for the weekend but I just
> wanted to say before I leave: this has never been a reason for an aggresive
> removal of any driver. We remove drivers when we stop supporting entire
> platforms, not mostly unused drivers on actively *supported* platforms where
> they can still be used for experimentation and testing. I'm fine with dropping
> this from arm64 defconfig but with fixes, the BROKEN tag should be removed
> and I definitely object to removing it from the tree. How many people still
> use greybus? Should we drop it from the kernel too? And I'm saying it as
> a project ARA alumni. :)

I agree, if someone is willing to maintain it, and there are actual
in-kernel uses of it (meaning not just a stand-alone library that can
never be called either by userspace or hardware), it should stay.

thanks,

greg k-h