Re: [PATCH v2] staging: greybus: remove driver depending on nonexistent config option

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Mon, Sep 14, 2026 at 07:02:59PM -0700, Ethan Nelson-Moore wrote:
> The Greybus Arche Platform driver depends on the config options
> USB_HSIC_USB3613 or COMPILE_TEST. USB_HSIC_USB3613 has never existed in
> mainline Linux, and COMPILE_TEST is intended to enable the compilation
> of drivers on platforms that can't support them to improve code
> coverage and ease testing of trivial or tree-wide changes. Therefore,
> it is impossible for anyone to be using this driver with unmodified
> mainline kernels. Remove it and move the former maintainer to the
> CREDITS file.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ethan Nelson-Moore <enelsonmoore@gmail.com>
> ---
> Changes in v2: Clarify commit message - mention COMPILE_TEST
> 
>  CREDITS                                  |   4 +
>  MAINTAINERS                              |   7 -
>  drivers/staging/greybus/Kconfig          |   9 -
>  drivers/staging/greybus/Makefile         |   6 -
>  drivers/staging/greybus/arche-apb-ctrl.c | 490 -----------------
>  drivers/staging/greybus/arche-platform.c | 653 -----------------------
>  drivers/staging/greybus/arche_platform.h |  28 -
>  7 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1193 deletions(-)
>  delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/greybus/arche-apb-ctrl.c
>  delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/greybus/arche-platform.c
>  delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/greybus/arche_platform.h

Yeah, it's time to finally drop this.  If it's needed in the future, it
can come back with a simple revert.

thanks,

greg k-h