From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-alma10-1.taild15c8.ts.net [100.103.45.18]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5670A36164D; Fri, 24 Jul 2026 15:11:24 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=100.103.45.18 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1784905886; cv=none; b=QYGY91M5BFJ0cWOyw3k4dMNuSQzj1r+ofpELIdW5DE95RcBaZeRFaiNRwC6tIYvFr8tDBEtTQzShP6KXyONcFOkjALeA1YV0+3Ft8ELueDtqyQRfHe0DezvdTFdQwRcbv4Hgs1SJnSuI7iQ3eWT/uwfKpt5PB6uJ6zrLp/oECsI= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1784905886; c=relaxed/simple; bh=qKU4GW/+b0QewGx2kYZ6Ay90WNbMY48rNwsLNKk/lL4=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=NTUmvyn0mdlWiijNqGh5oyKfthsuGPl6TNQt9bROPtnAYLNEcWEubvnYnurPJgaZvNEebMYcruHldv4iCkPaM+nJnGTmtbv6jHnmNvHUW+OsTBjWV/cWnYI9kcvE0r5PLZ8aG9xtV+dedj4chQDKGE1CSsu9kzQ7GLfTySMD8iw= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b=aKhfvHI6; arc=none smtp.client-ip=100.103.45.18 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b="aKhfvHI6" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 777591F000E9; Fri, 24 Jul 2026 15:11:23 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=kernel.org; s=k20260515; t=1784905883; bh=uuUNKxqY+LG3qQIlLd9qfr9KhKPVbYZ6sV4UqffU++M=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To; b=aKhfvHI6bLFKFB7z6X+qsS4QCJnBrahaBRx3Q/JMuLtPQG+QZ82AtxdGJOSLjb6+P hZuxyfmpixjWi7OE8NnL1tGUa6DudXfIQcogi+bjXFosj5udX2QSa+0E3fRZ5drm63 4ZKF57Cqj4rJIIWBdADeDjPOO7h0uUKLR2z2T1lKkZPliw+GRU4JKdSrAH+sABAIsR xwT64UfzODvP53K1U8a6BooGb1uYn+C8+BbeqvQNhTon/oNb/P0TnwDR9kCqzrRZYz QOtPqW6bQ/OLf8qMXXg/CMtpC4kw7fGsk7m1uu4u8lzIBHS9nEmY91V1v1lFfYBdMW 6zXqy4qAEz1ew== Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2026 08:09:32 -0700 From: Eric Biggers To: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Bartosz Golaszewski , linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, Herbert Xu , linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Demi Marie Obenour , Kuldeep Singh , Dmitry Baryshkov Subject: Re: [PATCH] crypto: qce - Remove driver Message-ID: <20260724150932.GA6763@sol> References: <20260724050645.223799-1-ebiggers@kernel.org> <2026072410-drained-acts-3502@gregkh> <2026072412-decrease-sandbag-70a1@gregkh> <20260724141414.GB1876@sol> <2026072455-subtly-prayer-0a8a@gregkh> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <2026072455-subtly-prayer-0a8a@gregkh> 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 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