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Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2026 15:41:49 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Hongyan Xu <getshell@seu.edu.cn>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, John Stultz <jstultz@google.com>,
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	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jianhao.xu@seu.edu.cn
Subject: Re: [PATCH] misc: hisi_hikey_usb: cancel role switch work on remove
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On Wed, Jul 29, 2026 at 06:56:18PM +0800, Hongyan Xu wrote:
> Thanks for the context. I wasn't aware that the driver had no upstream
> DT user or binding.

If so, should we just drop the driver if there are no in-kernel users of
it and no one has hardware for it anymore?

thanks,

greg k-h