From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
To: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
Ilan Elias <ilane@ti.com>, Samuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com>,
Lauro Ramos Venancio <lauro.venancio@openbossa.org>,
Aloisio Almeida Jr <aloisio.almeida@openbossa.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] NFC: remove TI nfcwilink driver
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2017 06:54:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B67FD13-A482-4BEF-B619-DD9AF9CC129F@holtmann.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170125222307.3044-1-robh@kernel.org>
Hi Rob,
> It appears that TI WiLink devices including NFC (WL185x/WL189x) never
> shipped. The only information I found were announcements in Feb
> 2012 about the parts. There's been no activity on this driver besided
> common changes since initially added in Jan 2012. There's also no in
> users that instantiate the platform device (nor DT bindings).
>
> This is a first step in removing TI ST (shared transport) driver in
> favor of extending the BT hci_ll driver to support WL183x chips.
since the firmware files TINfcInit_* also never made it into the linux-firmware tree, I have no idea who is using this driver. I am actually fine with removing it since it would be easy enough to bring back based on hci_ll driver once there is hardware to test this on.
Regards
Marcel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-01-26 5:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-01-25 22:23 [PATCH] NFC: remove TI nfcwilink driver Rob Herring
2017-01-26 5:54 ` Marcel Holtmann [this message]
2017-02-24 20:56 ` Rob Herring
2017-02-24 21:43 ` Marcel Holtmann
2017-02-24 21:52 ` Rob Herring
2017-02-27 10:36 ` Samuel Ortiz
2017-02-27 10:42 ` Samuel Ortiz
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