From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marek Szyprowski Subject: Re: [PATCH] iommu/exynos: Remove driver Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2014 14:49:53 +0100 Message-ID: <52F4E481.3050902@samsung.com> References: <1391716317-20300-1-git-send-email-olof@lixom.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mailout2.w1.samsung.com ([210.118.77.12]:33856 "EHLO mailout2.w1.samsung.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750868AbaBGNt5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Feb 2014 08:49:57 -0500 Received: from eucpsbgm1.samsung.com (unknown [203.254.199.244]) by mailout2.w1.samsung.com (Oracle Communications Messaging Server 7u4-24.01(7.0.4.24.0) 64bit (built Nov 17 2011)) with ESMTP id <0N0M002YFP337V00@mailout2.w1.samsung.com> for linux-samsung-soc@vger.kernel.org; Fri, 07 Feb 2014 13:49:51 +0000 (GMT) In-reply-to: Sender: linux-samsung-soc-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-samsung-soc@vger.kernel.org To: Kyungmin Park , Inki Dae Cc: Olof Johansson , Kukjin Kim , Joerg Roedel , "iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org" , "linux-samsung-soc@vger.kernel.org" , Sean Paul , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" , Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , Tomasz Figa Hello, On 2014-02-07 13:44, Kyungmin Park wrote: > > On Friday, February 7, 2014, Inki Dae > wrote: > > 2014-02-07 Olof Johansson >: > > The driver has been unbuildable due to unfulfilled dependencies > since > > 3.11, and even if enabled it won't build due to build breakage. > Emails > > about status on this have gone unanswered, and fixes seem to > have been > > abandoned. > > > > It's obvious that nobody cares about it, so let's remove it. > > Wait, we are going to fix up this module. It seems that KyoungHo, > original author, is busy with some works related to product. > > we can care about it if KyoungHo cannot afford to care for the > time being. > > Any volunteers? > Marek or Bartek, how do you think? > > Before that it makes orphan or unsupported at maintainer file first and > change it to new volunteers. I think that it might be easier to remove the existing non-functional driver now and add it again once the driver is ready. I have it on my TODO list, but doubt I will manage to finish it for v3.15. Discussing the DT bindings might take some time. Best regards -- Marek Szyprowski, PhD Samsung R&D Institute Poland