Re: [PATCH] NFC: remove TI nfcwilink driver

Marcel Holtmann
2017-01-26T05:54:24Z

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