From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from gabe.freedesktop.org (gabe.freedesktop.org [131.252.210.177]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 031EEC433FE for ; Thu, 20 Oct 2022 07:22:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from gabe.freedesktop.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gabe.freedesktop.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CA7310E3B6; Thu, 20 Oct 2022 07:22:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.smtpout.orange.fr (smtp-26.smtpout.orange.fr [80.12.242.26]) by gabe.freedesktop.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85A2810E74E for ; Wed, 19 Oct 2022 21:21:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from sopl295.home ([109.220.248.156]) by smtp.orange.fr with ESMTPA id lGNoo1NB2g7y2lGNpocFOd; Wed, 19 Oct 2022 23:13:51 +0200 X-ME-Helo: sopl295.home X-ME-Auth: amFyem1pay5yb2JlcnRAb3JhbmdlLmZy X-ME-Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2022 23:13:51 +0200 X-ME-IP: 109.220.248.156 From: Robert Jarzmik To: Arnd Bergmann Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/30] ARM: pxa: remove all unused boards&drivers In-Reply-To: <20221019161831.3864786-1-arnd@kernel.org> (Arnd Bergmann's message of "Wed, 19 Oct 2022 18:17:53 +0200") References: <20221019161831.3864786-1-arnd@kernel.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.1 (darwin) X-URL: http://belgarath.falguerolles.org/ Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2022 23:13:48 +0200 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 20 Oct 2022 07:21:18 +0000 X-BeenThere: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Direct Rendering Infrastructure - Development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, vigneshr@ti.com, lgirdwood@gmail.com, viresh.kumar@linaro.org, ulf.hansson@linaro.org, linux@dominikbrodowski.net, perex@perex.cz, wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com, patches@opensource.cirrus.com, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, philipp.zabel@gmail.com, miquel.raynal@bootlin.com, damien.lemoal@opensource.wdc.com, kernel@wantstofly.org, linux-leds@vger.kernel.org, linux-rtc@vger.kernel.org, brgl@bgdev.pl, lee@kernel.org, linux@armlinux.org.uk, marek.vasut@gmail.com, stern@rowland.harvard.edu, lost.distance@yahoo.com, slapin@ossfans.org, Arnd Bergmann , linux-pm@vger.kernel.org, linux-input@vger.kernel.org, Haojian Zhuang , linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org, broonie@kernel.org, sre@kernel.org, linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org, tiwai@suse.com, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, balbi@kernel.org, mkpetch@internode.on.net, s.shtylyov@omp.ru, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, jingoohan1@gmail.com, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com, linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com, linux-renesas-soc@vger.kernel.org, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, deller@gmx.de, Daniel Mack Errors-To: dri-devel-bounces@lists.freedesktop.org Sender: "dri-devel" Arnd Bergmann writes: > From: Arnd Bergmann ...zip... > A good number of drivers become impossible to select after this, so > each of these also get dropped. I'm including the driver patches in the > series here and can either merge them through the soc tree, or they > can get picked up by the individual subsystem maintainers. Since both > the platform and the drivers get removed, the order should not matter. This part is a bit ... bothering. I at least identified these : > delete mode 100644 drivers/input/touchscreen/wm9705.c > delete mode 100644 drivers/input/touchscreen/wm9712.c > delete mode 100644 drivers/input/touchscreen/wm9713.c > delete mode 100644 drivers/input/touchscreen/wm97xx-core.c > delete mode 100644 drivers/mfd/wm97xx-core.c > delete mode 100644 sound/ac97/bus.c > delete mode 100644 sound/ac97/codec.c > delete mode 100644 sound/ac97/snd_ac97_compat.c For the existing platforms working with devicetree support (mioa701 for example), the wm9713 was properly used, providing both sound support and input touchscreen. So was the a97 part, providing a framework to make the wm9713 work. So I'm wondering how the choice to chop these drivers was done, and it is necessary to remove them. If so, maybe pxa support in the kernel should be removed all together, as people playing with it loose part of the working DT platforms they had. As for the removal of defconfigs and arch-pxa, sure, this was PXA's destiny. Cheers. -- Robert PS: If this mail is sent twice, sorry in advance, my mailer is a bad mood lately.