From: Wolfram Sang <wsa-z923LK4zBo2bacvFa/9K2g@public.gmane.org>
To: Oskar Schirmer <oskar-fYPSZ7JpQqsAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
Cc: linux-i2c-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org,
linux-xtensa-PjhNF2WwrV/0Sa2dR60CXw@public.gmane.org,
Chris Zankel <chris-YvXeqwSYzG2sTnJN9+BGXg@public.gmane.org>,
Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: i2c: removal of s6000 driver
Date: Sat, 24 May 2014 12:21:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140524102150.GA3058@katana> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140523131722.GA28143@curry>
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> > I recently discovered that the I2C core of the S6000 is basically a
> > Designware IP core. For the latter we have a frequently used and updated
> > i2c driver while the S6000 driver seems to bitrot. My wish is to remove
> > the s6000 driver in favor of the DesignWare one. My question is if there
> > is someone who could test such a change on real hardware?
> > Grepping through sources, it looks to me like the only candidate in
> > mainline is the s6105, yet its defconfig doesn't even have I2C
> > activated? Can we remove this driver right away? Am I missing something?
>
> Removing drivers without a replacement tested and running
> doesn't make much sense, except one chooses to drop support
> for the whole S6 thing right away. Which I don't support.
Huh? I explicitly asked for help to test the replacement driver in the
first place. And was wondering why it is not in a defconfig. You know,
it could have been broken, too.
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-24 10:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-21 11:30 i2c: removal of s6000 driver Wolfram Sang
2014-05-23 13:17 ` Oskar Schirmer
2014-05-23 13:57 ` Max Filippov
2014-05-23 17:33 ` czankel
[not found] ` <537F8652.1090807-YvXeqwSYzG2sTnJN9+BGXg@public.gmane.org>
2014-05-24 15:47 ` Oskar Schirmer
2014-05-27 22:35 ` Daniel Glöckner
[not found] ` <20140527223557.GA9594-G/SgeDpXzeDLoDKTGw+V6w@public.gmane.org>
2014-06-09 22:06 ` Wolfram Sang
2014-06-11 8:51 ` Daniel Glöckner
2014-07-28 14:43 ` Daniel Glöckner
[not found] ` <20140728144330.GA31207-QdrG9jWwCLEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2014-08-09 14:07 ` Wolfram Sang
2014-05-24 10:21 ` Wolfram Sang [this message]
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