From: Kevin Hilman <khilman@baylibre.com>
To: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
Sekhar Nori <nsekhar@ti.com>,
Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>,
Matt Porter <mporter@konsulko.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ARM: davinci: Delete DM644x board files
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2022 10:51:22 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7hbkskvzz9.fsf@baylibre.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACRpkdZbBRGcf4bn5CYWZuKZDWjWwwB8_LKprOroiD-ni9_tYQ@mail.gmail.com>
Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> writes:
> On Fri, Jul 1, 2022 at 2:03 PM Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> wrote:
>
>> The interest of maintaining the DaVinci DM644x board files seems
>> very low. Patches to convert the EVM board to use GPIO descriptors
>> has not been reviewed, tested or merged for several merge
>> windows in a row, see link below.
>>
>> When I look in the logs for the board files I see nothing but
>> generic kernel maintenance and no testing on real hardware for
>> years.
>>
>> I conclude the DM644x board files are unused and can be deleted.
>>
>> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>
>> Cc: Matt Porter <mporter@konsulko.com>
>> Cc: Sekhar Nori <nsekhar@ti.com>
>> Cc: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com>
>> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/20220507124536.171930-1-linus.walleij@linaro.org/
>> Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
>
> I realized Kevin Hilman wrote the original support code and might have
> this board in his test farm in the shed so paging Kevin too.
Acked-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman@baylibre.com>
Until a year or so ago, I was still boot testing some davinci platforms
in "legacy" mode via board files, but I stopped. Since then my DM644x
died completely, so I don't even have this platform anymore for testing.
Kevin
P.S. Sorry for the lag, just catching up after taking some summer time off.
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2022-07-01 12:01 [PATCH] ARM: davinci: Delete DM644x board files Linus Walleij
2022-07-01 12:10 ` Linus Walleij
2022-08-16 17:51 ` Kevin Hilman [this message]
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