Re: [PATCH] crypto: qce - Remove driver

[Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>]

On Fri, Jul 24, 2026 at 05:04:46PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 24, 2026 at 02:47:48PM +0000, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> > On Fri, 24 Jul 2026 16:14:14 +0200, Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org> said:
> > >
> > > And with the defaults QCE is *never* used.
> > >
> > 
> > It's almost EOD here and I'm going to disconnect for the weekend but I just
> > wanted to say before I leave: this has never been a reason for an aggresive
> > removal of any driver. We remove drivers when we stop supporting entire
> > platforms, not mostly unused drivers on actively *supported* platforms where
> > they can still be used for experimentation and testing. I'm fine with dropping
> > this from arm64 defconfig but with fixes, the BROKEN tag should be removed
> > and I definitely object to removing it from the tree. How many people still
> > use greybus? Should we drop it from the kernel too? And I'm saying it as
> > a project ARA alumni. :)
> 
> I agree, if someone is willing to maintain it, and there are actual
> in-kernel uses of it (meaning not just a stand-alone library that can
> never be called either by userspace or hardware), it should stay.

What would we be considering the in-kernel uses to be, then?  Just
wiring it up to the framework is enough, regardless of actual use?

- Eric