Re: Conflicting PCI ID in bdc driver

Alan Cooper
2021-01-13T20:08:12Z

Just to be clear, I'm only interested in removing the bdc_pci.c file
and not the rest of the BDC driver.
I talked to the hardware engineer that designed the BDC core and he
said that there were only a few of these PCIe/FPGA boards. They were
used for development until the BDC core was added to various ARM SoC's
as a memory mapped platform bus controller. The original PCIe boards
are no longer in existence.

Al

On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 5:22 AM Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 02:51:05PM -0500, Alan Cooper wrote:
> > I just checked with the hardware engineer that designed the BDC core.
> > The BDC PCI driver was used with an FPGA/PCIe board for design
> > verification and no one should be using this driver. I'll send a patch
> > that will remove this driver.
>
> Based on the recent patches for this driver on the mailing list, are you
> sure that no one is using this? We can't delete a driver that people
> are using.
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h