From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-alma10-1.taild15c8.ts.net [100.103.45.18]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D2C90342514; Fri, 24 Jul 2026 15:04:57 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=100.103.45.18 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1784905498; cv=none; b=rKuRlBHDcI7M/dBmD0aTPIB097/LgugxPFr8+8v4gMK9oUu0AP5CcuFJf5JZkDynrTMJ0esMGmCFMjldwtkFZ//y1wMjQJDFKXWn12Z5KKG6nG25f6tTVWSCkSO+fpyRkREHHpzQROsnV8v27DfbMEjCPqG9QNiMn3eiozJKR+I= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1784905498; c=relaxed/simple; bh=AEC4KivREAy1374yFdIkDUWeUVyucIoFZRIdKedXkM4=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=OqolP1qd07lXs9Kb5XV75FTkxiSdHTbdy4R/6VVJ/SRMPWHeulMrXWlq2D8/C+M7mLhLvruwskhnQny1FOv6bRxS5m7B577Us6EeN32S9PYpJdTS6c2XxiVGRYIWf8v7HUEk0weDbRpYBMGx+R1iNyYsjf+474RWnXvog5LTzOM= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.i=@linuxfoundation.org header.b=BAk4wQ+/; arc=none smtp.client-ip=100.103.45.18 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.i=@linuxfoundation.org header.b="BAk4wQ+/" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id EC9031F000E9; Fri, 24 Jul 2026 15:04:56 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1784905497; bh=J20cEnp8PovEA/g12VR916ZnfHt50GcHPHMTtaTEiVg=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To; b=BAk4wQ+/Wa6HGA5fWaRxaMM4erqhLgYbfehDK/3pX/9VFTbUAT0LmZV0FOCA7WAUW lXh3hVmb6hP/EwvEs8l8FF4/1f0OEdvvhfGp/nqgBuD/biTEwc/KzeIbwO0Y5sh6sY 1qCUaFBnq6Tgf0xoqRlO/qc77rUF64i7CDr3kXIQ= Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2026 17:04:46 +0200 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: Bartosz Golaszewski Cc: Eric Biggers , linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, Herbert Xu , linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Demi Marie Obenour , Kuldeep Singh , Dmitry Baryshkov Subject: Re: [PATCH] crypto: qce - Remove driver Message-ID: <2026072455-subtly-prayer-0a8a@gregkh> References: <20260724050645.223799-1-ebiggers@kernel.org> <2026072410-drained-acts-3502@gregkh> <2026072412-decrease-sandbag-70a1@gregkh> <20260724141414.GB1876@sol> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: On Fri, Jul 24, 2026 at 02:47:48PM +0000, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote: > On Fri, 24 Jul 2026 16:14:14 +0200, Eric Biggers 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