Re: [PATCH 0/3] PCI: mobiveil: Misc fixes

[Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com>]

On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 11:56:00AM -0500, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 02:43:13PM +0100, Lorenzo Pieralisi wrote:
> > Subrahmanya,
> > 
> > I put together this series so that the Mobiveil controller driver
> > can compile (successfully). Please review and ack as soon as possible
> > since the current situation is a bit embarassing to be honest, we
> > should be sending these patches as fixes this week so that they
> > can make it for v4.18, currently the driver is in the kernel for
> > nothing.
> 
> There doesn't seem to be much interest in the Mobiveil driver (the
> last patch I see was on May 10), and as you say, it's not even in the
> Makefile, so it has gotten zero testing or even building.
> 
> Should we just drop the driver and see if anybody wants to try again
> next cycle?  I'm a little hesitant about flipping the switch to enable
> a brand-new driver this late in the cycle.

I totally share your concern - I do not know what's the best way
to drop it but I think that reverting it is sensible given what
this series has to do to enable it in the first place.

Thanks,
Lorenzo