Re: [PATCH v2] i2c: Drop legacy muxing pseudo-drivers

[Wolfram Sang <wsa@kernel.org>]

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On Thu, Sep 28, 2023 at 10:16:55AM +0200, Jean Delvare wrote:
> The i2c-amd756-s4882 and i2c-nforce2-s4985 muxing pseudo-drivers were
> written at a time when the i2c core did not support muxing. They are
> essentially board-specific hacks. If we had to add support for these
> boards today, we would implement it in a completely different way.
> 
> These Tyan server boards are 18 years old by now, so I very much doubt
> any of these is still running today. So let's just drop this clumsy
> code. If anyone really still needs this support and complains, I'll
> rewrite it in a proper way on top of i2c-mux.
> 
> This also fixes the following warnings:
> drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-amd756.c:286:20: warning: symbol 'amd756_smbus' was not declared. Should it be static?
> drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-nforce2.c:123:20: warning: symbol 'nforce2_smbus' was not declared. Should it be static?
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
> Acked-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
> Cc: Andi Shyti <andi.shyti@kernel.org>

Applied to for-next, thanks!


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