Re: [PATCH] bus: fsl-mc: Remove deadcode

["Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <linux@treblig.org>]

Hi Greg,

* Ioana Ciornei (ioana.ciornei@nxp.com) wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 13, 2025 at 02:37:56PM +0100, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > Le 13/03/2025 à 14:21, Dr. David Alan Gilbert a écrit :
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> > > 
> > > * Christophe Leroy (christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu) wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Le 15/11/2024 à 16:20, linux@treblig.org a écrit :
> > > > > [Vous ne recevez pas souvent de courriers de linux@treblig.org. Découvrez pourquoi ceci est important à https://aka.ms/LearnAboutSenderIdentification ]
> > > > > 
> > > > > From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <linux@treblig.org>
> > > > > 
> > > > > fsl_mc_allocator_driver_exit() was added explicitly by
> > > > > commit 1e8ac83b6caf ("bus: fsl-mc: add fsl_mc_allocator cleanup function")
> > > > > but was never used.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Remove it.
> > > > > 
> > > > > fsl_mc_portal_reset() was added in 2015 by
> > > > > commit 197f4d6a4a00 ("staging: fsl-mc: fsl-mc object allocator driver")
> > > > > but was never used.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Remove it.
> > > > > 
> > > > > fsl_mc_portal_reset() was the only caller of dpmcp_reset().
> > > > > 
> > > > > Remove it.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <linux@treblig.org>
> > > > 
> > > > Acked-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
> > > 
> > > Hi,
> > >    Can someone pick this old change up please?  I see the PPC patchwork says
> > >    'handled elsewhere' but doesn't say where.
> > 
> > MAINTAINERS file says where:
> > 
> > QORIQ DPAA2 FSL-MC BUS DRIVER
> > M:	Stuart Yoder <stuyoder@gmail.com>
> > M:	Laurentiu Tudor <laurentiu.tudor@nxp.com>
> > L:	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> > S:	Maintained
> > F:	Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-bus-fsl-mc
> > F:	Documentation/devicetree/bindings/misc/fsl,qoriq-mc.txt
> > F:
> > Documentation/networking/device_drivers/ethernet/freescale/dpaa2/overview.rst
> > F:	drivers/bus/fsl-mc/
> > F:	include/uapi/linux/fsl_mc.h
> > 
> > FREESCALE SOC DRIVERS
> > M:	Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
> > L:	linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
> > L:	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org (moderated for non-subscribers)
> > S:	Maintained
> > F:	Documentation/devicetree/bindings/misc/fsl,dpaa2-console.yaml
> > F:	Documentation/devicetree/bindings/soc/fsl/
> > F:	drivers/soc/fsl/
> > F:	include/linux/fsl/
> > F:	include/soc/fsl/
> > 
> > I acked the 2 line changes in include/linux/fsl/mc.h, the main changes being
> > in the C files which are not under my scope.
> > 
> > Stuart, Laurentiu, can you pick up the patch ?
> 
> Stuart and Laurentiu are no longer at NXP. Even when they handled the
> fsl-mc bus driver, they didn't have a tree themselves to pick patches up
> but rather, historically, patches on the fsl-mc bus were picked by Greg
> KH.

OK, copied Greg in.

Dave

> Ioana
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