From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Wolfram Sang Subject: Re: i2c: removal of s6000 driver Date: Sat, 24 May 2014 12:21:50 +0200 Message-ID: <20140524102150.GA3058@katana> References: <20140521113029.GT2708@katana> <20140523131722.GA28143@curry> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="YZ5djTAD1cGYuMQK" Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20140523131722.GA28143@curry> Sender: linux-i2c-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Oskar Schirmer Cc: linux-i2c-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-xtensa-PjhNF2WwrV/0Sa2dR60CXw@public.gmane.org, Chris Zankel , Max Filippov List-Id: linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org --YZ5djTAD1cGYuMQK Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > 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? >=20 > 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. --YZ5djTAD1cGYuMQK Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.15 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJTgHK+AAoJEBQN5MwUoCm2mNQP/2LcsPPl7zLxKsDXzxSRdpMT 4nT96pUug/+4fs84jlMugoGcbj7NysE6IeP7Ak6FqVyl8Rm4/msRuN8T0/h1L5te qCdUvMZK9RXs1cZSmCY19u7QB6lTZTknh43Q8uJYKkzsqVe1LK7wyHZtl+sJRYwJ W/P3mB/Zv5At53LyMk27bcbV04V/xum+RrZC/IqrFMQoy6V6TeNPY4JQG+vUU7UM m3apwiQgYpGZck2Y7xu61K6OObG5jka60EU1ZZ+IusHY8MTg1PCLKZnD//Sg32Br RnL9tQnIZnGpMmrnr2iWZyOhW/yVxilgRGWOY+21lOT9fxxlHNjTgLBuTxQKebeF qf9Uzt9/xNM6dj4l1hyD/j2tI4YCuzC1x5qo9DRQLi37HwdlNpYUt2jmrW4ycMhr 5uT6Y6Y5dG2tcwJ825fduTo7Y9JN6NyNonqDFNuvpq7AAfHfjZfgWv3RN2VS94VG 4ALxAFJvlN+v+d8QubnqSiiPntTO9j57MtuVOmsLvMgT7Dcop6Ke+BnGd4eDA1mV 9qxb2EehACbcum6raF7AAcVgBFNeflbcdgxCDimUQdumrPJVUfTjTiyH/JHSnwdN xTzBalmO1HYLJctlBeGxFVAfCnZaeLfw6t7sZjvysrZT5DkwjjF7Jd2hXMmXockZ o5nqyCMXuDvPijq5qt6N =Bq6M -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --YZ5djTAD1cGYuMQK--