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Tue, 02 Jun 2026 06:12:03 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2026 16:11:59 +0300 From: Dan Carpenter To: Grewstad Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-staging@lists.linux.dev, Ovidiu Panait , Jacob Feder Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: axis-fifo: remove driver Message-ID: References: <20260602103208.15799-1-dogestad24@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-staging@lists.linux.dev List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: On Tue, Jun 02, 2026 at 06:31:27PM +0530, Grewstad wrote: > On Tue, Jun 2, 2026 at 5:07 PM Dan Carpenter wrote: > > > > On Tue, Jun 02, 2026 at 04:01:53PM +0530, Arihan Bhor wrote: > > > > I don't think we should delete this driver. From reading the git > > log, Ovidiu Panait was obviously using this code last year. Let's > > also add Jacob Feder, although he hasn't touched the code in 8 years, > > he still might know if there are other users. > > I could not find any user-space applications that depend on this driver. > > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAD03fjb=_kW9=q9YV4qnQ5GD=HMB5Bx7pf3+AFcgDR2gVc1V6Q@mail.gmail.com/ > I was looking for any users of this driver on the linux-kernel, linux-staging, > and linux-arm-kernel mailing lists as well as Jacob Feder, and received no > replies since I posted it 1 day ago. If someone is using it or maintaining a > proprietary app, they will complain and we can bring the driver back. Here are people using it and running into issues in Jan 2025. https://adaptivesupport.amd.com/s/question/0D54U00008zRBdISAW/vitis-is-not-creating-a-driver-entry-for-axififomm-43?language=zh_CN Someone provides a work around: https://adaptivesupport.amd.com/s/question/0D54U00008sLBuMSAW/how-to-use-the-axi-stream-fifo-drivers-xllfifoh-xllfifogc-etc-in-the-project?language=en_US Then Ovidiu Panait fixed the bug in Sep by adding the correct compatible. regards, dan carpenter