From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Steffen Trumtrar Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] leds: pca9685: Remove leds-pca9685 driver Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2014 11:30:53 +0200 Message-ID: <20140406093053.GH12170@pengutronix.de> References: <1396754381.13341.4.camel@phoenix> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1396754381.13341.4.camel@phoenix> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Axel Lin Cc: Thierry Reding , Bryan Wu , Richard Purdie , Maximilian =?iso-8859-1?Q?G=FCntner?= , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-leds@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-leds@vger.kernel.org Hi! On Sun, Apr 06, 2014 at 11:19:41AM +0800, Axel Lin wrote: > This driver is replaced by pwm-pca9685 driver and there is no user uses this > driver in current tree. So remove it. > > Signed-off-by: Axel Lin > --- > Hi, > I found there is a modalias conflict between leds-pca9685.ko and pwm-pca9685.ko. > I think this conflict will cause problem. > After checking the code, I think leds-pca9685 is replaced by pwm-pca9685. This confused me for a second, as there was no driver to replace when I wrote the pwm-pca9685 driver and I thought I missed something. But it seems I didn't and the pwm-pca9685 is actually older. > Use git grep to check current tree and found there is no user uses leds-pca9685. > So this patch removes leds-pca9685 driver. > If the platform setup is needed, maybe this can be integrated into the pwm driver instead of completely dropping it. I don't care for platform code, but if someone does, I don't want him to lose the support for it. Otherwise I am okay with this drop (okay, I'm completely biased of course ;-)). But technically the pca9685 is not solely a LED driver IC, but a PWM IC, so it is in the wrong place anyhow. Regards, Steffen -- Pengutronix e.K. | | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | Peiner Str. 6-8, 31137 Hildesheim, Germany | Phone: +49-5121-206917-0 | Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 | Fax: +49-5121-206917-5555 |