Re: [PATCH] NFC: remove TI nfcwilink driver

Rob Herring
2017-02-24T20:57:21Z

On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 11:54 PM, Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org> wrote:
> 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.

Ping. Someone going to pick up this patch?

Rob