From: Vinod Koul <vkoul@kernel.org>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Sudeep Dutt <sudeep.dutt@intel.com>,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dmaengine@vger.kernel.org,
linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
Sherry Sun <sherry.sun@nxp.com>,
Ashutosh Dixit <ashutosh.dixit@intel.com>,
Nikhil Rao <nikhil.rao@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH char-misc-next 1/1] misc: mic: remove the MIC drivers
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2020 11:34:58 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201028060458.GK3550@vkoul-mobl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201028055429.GA244117@kroah.com>
On 28-10-20, 06:54, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 08:14:15PM -0700, Sudeep Dutt wrote:
> > This patch removes the MIC drivers from the kernel tree
> > since the corresponding devices have been discontinued.
>
> Does "discontinued" mean "never shipped a device so no one has access to
> this hardware anymore", or does it mean "we stopped shipping devices and
> there are customers with this?"
>
> > Removing the dma and char-misc changes in one patch and
> > merging via the char-misc tree is best to avoid any
> > potential build breakage.
> >
> > Cc: Nikhil Rao <nikhil.rao@intel.com>
> > Reviewed-by: Ashutosh Dixit <ashutosh.dixit@intel.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Sudeep Dutt <sudeep.dutt@intel.com>
>
> I like deleting code, can this go into 5.10-final?
I would like that, if unused lets get it cleaned now rather than later
:-)
Said that, for all dmaengine bits:
Acked-By: Vinod Koul <vkoul@kernel.org>
--
~Vinod
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2020-10-28 5:54 ` [PATCH char-misc-next 1/1] misc: mic: remove the MIC drivers Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-10-28 6:04 ` Vinod Koul [this message]
2020-10-28 17:22 ` Dutt, Sudeep
2020-10-28 18:09 ` gregkh
2020-10-28 7:15 ` Sherry Sun
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