[PATCH 0/6] remove AR7 platform and associated drivers

Wolfram Sang
2023-09-20T20:10:54Z

When trying to get rid of the obsolete VLYNQ bus, Jonas and Florian
pointed out that its only user, the AR7 platform can probaly go entirely
[1]. This series does exactly that. Even OpenWRT has removed support
because these devices are "stuck with 3.18" [2].

It removes the drivers first, because watchdog and network include
platform specific headers. Once the drivers are gone, we remove the
platform. The patches are based on 6.6-rc2 and created with
"--irreversible-delete" to save some space.

My suggestion is that everything is merged via the MIPS tree in one go,
so we don't have broken drivers because of missing platform headers. But
maybe there are reasons for a two-cycle removal with the drivers first
and the platform later?

Looking forward to comments.

Happy hacking,

Wolfram

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/3395161f-2543-46f0-83d9-b918800305e1@gmail.com
[2] https://openwrt.org/docs/techref/targets/ar7

Wolfram Sang (6):
serial: 8250: remove AR7 support
mtd: parsers: ar7: remove support
vlynq: remove bus driver
watchdog: ar7_wdt: remove driver to prepare for platform removal
net: cpmac: remove driver to prepare for platform removal
MIPS: AR7: remove platform

MAINTAINERS | 13 -
arch/arm/configs/pxa_defconfig | 1 -
arch/mips/Kbuild.platforms | 1 -
arch/mips/Kconfig | 22 -
arch/mips/ar7/Makefile | 11 -
arch/mips/ar7/Platform | 5 -
arch/mips/ar7/clock.c | 439 --------
arch/mips/ar7/gpio.c | 332 ------
arch/mips/ar7/irq.c | 165 ---
arch/mips/ar7/memory.c | 51 -
arch/mips/ar7/platform.c | 722 -------------
arch/mips/ar7/prom.c | 256 -----
arch/mips/ar7/setup.c | 93 --
arch/mips/ar7/time.c | 31 -
arch/mips/boot/compressed/uart-16550.c | 5 -
arch/mips/configs/ar7_defconfig | 119 ---
arch/mips/include/asm/mach-ar7/ar7.h | 191 ----
arch/mips/include/asm/mach-ar7/irq.h | 16 -
arch/mips/include/asm/mach-ar7/prom.h | 12 -
arch/mips/include/asm/mach-ar7/spaces.h | 22 -
drivers/Kconfig | 2 -
drivers/Makefile | 1 -
drivers/mtd/parsers/Kconfig | 5 -
drivers/mtd/parsers/Makefile | 1 -
drivers/mtd/parsers/ar7part.c | 129 ---
drivers/net/ethernet/ti/Kconfig | 9 +-
drivers/net/ethernet/ti/Makefile | 1 -
drivers/net/ethernet/ti/cpmac.c | 1251 -----------------------
drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c | 7 -
drivers/vlynq/Kconfig | 21 -
drivers/vlynq/Makefile | 6 -
drivers/vlynq/vlynq.c | 799 ---------------
drivers/watchdog/Kconfig | 6 -
drivers/watchdog/Makefile | 1 -
drivers/watchdog/ar7_wdt.c | 315 ------
include/linux/vlynq.h | 149 ---
include/uapi/linux/serial_core.h | 1 -
37 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 5210 deletions(-)
delete mode 100644 arch/mips/ar7/Makefile
delete mode 100644 arch/mips/ar7/Platform
delete mode 100644 arch/mips/ar7/clock.c
delete mode 100644 arch/mips/ar7/gpio.c
delete mode 100644 arch/mips/ar7/irq.c
delete mode 100644 arch/mips/ar7/memory.c
delete mode 100644 arch/mips/ar7/platform.c
delete mode 100644 arch/mips/ar7/prom.c
delete mode 100644 arch/mips/ar7/setup.c
delete mode 100644 arch/mips/ar7/time.c
delete mode 100644 arch/mips/configs/ar7_defconfig
delete mode 100644 arch/mips/include/asm/mach-ar7/ar7.h
delete mode 100644 arch/mips/include/asm/mach-ar7/irq.h
delete mode 100644 arch/mips/include/asm/mach-ar7/prom.h
delete mode 100644 arch/mips/include/asm/mach-ar7/spaces.h
delete mode 100644 drivers/mtd/parsers/ar7part.c
delete mode 100644 drivers/net/ethernet/ti/cpmac.c
delete mode 100644 drivers/vlynq/Kconfig
delete mode 100644 drivers/vlynq/Makefile
delete mode 100644 drivers/vlynq/vlynq.c
delete mode 100644 drivers/watchdog/ar7_wdt.c
delete mode 100644 include/linux/vlynq.h

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