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 vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94287C46CA1 for ; Sat, 16 Sep 2023 11:44:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S232870AbjIPLoG (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Sep 2023 07:44:06 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:51442 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S229732AbjIPLnl (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Sep 2023 07:43:41 -0400 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (relay.kernel.org [52.25.139.140]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CA088CCB; Sat, 16 Sep 2023 04:43:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E85E4C433C8; Sat, 16 Sep 2023 11:43:35 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1694864616; bh=8iD39Qw3H8JPs5fA6kJHUzCEKJF3ScoApfRvXbC6TiQ=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=K+wnMs5E22siwT+LTWVhV+sUtZBDfVXYThePCUFM24qcex/nIpCuw+Xj4yqsQwr3R 3mcfTmViZoTEn9Qan1OirzfFGvpdLL9Z2lg+8GNqOI0qdxxFbag6LgOT35nITGiDIq k4p7QKwCnMP+mG7LdCuF5fS7sie0zVQTFBp+BqXY= Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2023 13:43:33 +0200 From: Greg KH To: Wolfram Sang Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Florian Fainelli , Wolfram Sang , linux-mips@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] vlynq: remove bus support Message-ID: <2023091624-outthink-griminess-11cd@gregkh> References: <20230916091125.3221-1-wsa@kernel.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20230916091125.3221-1-wsa@kernel.org> Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Sep 16, 2023 at 11:11:22AM +0200, Wolfram Sang wrote: > From: Wolfram Sang > > I'd like to clean up the 'drivers' directory and Kconfig menu, at least > a little. One major thing I noticed is that VLYNQ can actually be > removed. From patch 2: > > --- > There are no users with a vlynq_driver in the Kernel tree. So, remove > the bus driver which hardly has seen any activity since 2009. It was > even marked EXPERIMENTAL as long as that symbol existed. OpenWRT had > some out-of-tree drivers which they probably intended to upport, but AR7 > devices are not supported anymore because they are "stuck with Kernel > 3.18" [1]. So, this code can go nowadays. > > [1] https://openwrt.org/docs/techref/targets/ar7 > --- > > Patch 1 removes MIPS specific bus initialization code which is the only > user of the VLYNQ bus currently. > > Sending out as RFC to gather comments. Patches are based on 6.6-rc1 and > created with "--irreversible-delete" to save some space. They are > compile tested only, buildbots were happy. > > I think this mainly goes to Florian Fainelli. Florian, what do you > think? Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman