Re: [PATCH 1/2] ASoC: qcom: remove ipq806x Storm machine driver

[Christian Marangi <ansuelsmth@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Jul 22, 2026 at 01:48:30PM +0300, Dmitry Baryshkov wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Jul 2026 at 13:38, Christian Marangi <ansuelsmth@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Jul 22, 2026 at 10:00:34AM +0200, Konrad Dybcio wrote:
> > > On 7/21/26 8:12 PM, Dmitry Baryshkov wrote:
> > > > The Storm board machine driver targets Google's IPQ806x-based Storm
> > > > reference board (a MAX98357A DAC wired to the LPASS I2S bus). This board
> > > > has no upstream device tree, no active users and has seen no functional
> > > > changes in years, so the driver is dead weight.
> > > >
> > > > Remove the driver together with its Kconfig entry and Makefile rule.
> > > >
> > > > Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8
> > >
> > > Using AI to `git rm` is definitely tokenmaxxing!
> > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov@oss.qualcomm.com>
> > > > ---
> > >
> > > Reviewed-by: Konrad Dybcio <konrad.dybcio@oss.qualcomm.com>
> > >
> >
> > Honestly I'm pretty angry about the latest changes on ipq806x. First the
> > dtsi just because there weren't device (it's ok and understandable) now we
> > are starting to remove driver...
> >
> > There are godzillion situation where there is a driver but absolutely no
> > dtsi. Lets remove the dwmac driver, usb phy, pcie and everything else at
> > this point and treat this soc like it's a 80-90 code...
> >
> > I will post dtsi with actual device for the SoC but really I'm not
> > following all this hurry in cleaning code for device that still gets used
> > and actually some company even produced new one (even if it's EOL)
> 
> We have no way to check that the device is being used other than the
> DTSI present in the kernel, being updated from time to time with
> non-trivial changes.
> 
> For the patchset in question, do you (or the community) actually use
> OnHub? If so, please consider upstreaming DT files (and also updating
> schema FWIW).
> If not, the files will eventually go away. Just having unused drivers
> _adds_ a burden. I stumbled upon the driver while reviewing a patch
> changing the driver (for the sake of changing the ASoC API).
> 
> And FWIW the series doesn't touch the IPQ806x LPASS driver (which has
> a DT counterpart).
> 

Yes on OpenWrt we support 3 OnHub google devices from Asus and Tplink and
they also use the storm driver for the strange attached speaker.

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