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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: Stefan Wahren <stefan.wahren@i2se.com>
Cc: Tuomas Tynkkynen <tuomas.tynkkynen@iki.fi>,
	phil@raspberrypi.org, Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>,
	devel@driverdev.osuosl.org,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-rpi-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] staging: vc04_services: Some dead code removal
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2018 13:18:31 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181017101831.b5kvh5jw3sqqhbat@mwanda> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1715113043.52878.1538821118324@email.1und1.de>

On Sat, Oct 06, 2018 at 12:18:38PM +0200, Stefan Wahren wrote:
> Hi Tuomas,
> 
> > Tuomas Tynkkynen <tuomas.tynkkynen@iki.fi> hat am 4. Oktober 2018 um 11:37 geschrieben:
> > 
> > 
> > Drop various pieces of dead code from here and there to get rid of
> > the remaining users of VCHI_CONNECTION_T. After that we get to drop
> > entire header files worth of unused code.
> > 
> > I've tested on a Raspberry Pi Model B (bcm2835_defconfig) that
> > snd-bcm2835 can still play analog audio just fine.
> > 
> 
> thanks and i'm fine with your patch series:
> 
> Acked-by: Stefan Wahren <stefan.wahren@i2se.com>
> 
> Unfortunately this would break compilation of the downstream vchi
> drivers like vcsm [1]. Personally i don't want to maintain another
> one, because i cannot see the gain of the resulting effort.
> 
> [1] - https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/tree/rpi-4.14.y/drivers/char/broadcom/vc_sm


I feel like everyone else already knows the answer but why don't we just
merge that code into staging?

regards,
dan carpenter


  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-10-17 10:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-10-04  9:37 [PATCH 0/7] staging: vc04_services: Some dead code removal Tuomas Tynkkynen
2018-10-04  9:37 ` [PATCH 1/7] staging: vc04_services: Drop pointless stub functions Tuomas Tynkkynen
2018-10-04  9:37 ` [PATCH 2/7] staging: vc04_services: Drop 'connection' field from SERVICE_CREATION_T Tuomas Tynkkynen
2018-10-04  9:37 ` [PATCH 3/7] staging: vc04_services: Drop trivially unused fields " Tuomas Tynkkynen
2018-10-04  9:37 ` [PATCH 4/7] staging: vc04_services: Drop declaration of vchi_crc_control() Tuomas Tynkkynen
2018-10-04  9:37 ` [PATCH 5/7] staging: vc04_services: Drop VCHI_SERVICE_INIT and SERVICE_INFO_T Tuomas Tynkkynen
2018-10-04  9:37 ` [PATCH 6/7] staging: vc04_services: Drop unused parameters from vchi_connect() Tuomas Tynkkynen
2018-10-04  9:37 ` [PATCH 7/7] staging: vc04_services: Drop no longer needed headers Tuomas Tynkkynen
2018-10-06 10:18 ` [PATCH 0/7] staging: vc04_services: Some dead code removal Stefan Wahren
2018-10-15 16:14   ` Eric Anholt
2018-10-17  9:55     ` Dave Stevenson
2018-10-17 10:50       ` Stefan Wahren
2018-10-17 10:18   ` Dan Carpenter [this message]
2018-10-17 15:37     ` Eric Anholt
2018-10-17 16:51       ` Peter Robinson
2018-10-18  9:22         ` Dave Stevenson
2018-10-18  9:37           ` Stefan Wahren
2018-10-26 17:15             ` Dave Stevenson
2018-10-28  8:31               ` Stefan Wahren
2018-10-29 10:43                 ` Dave Stevenson

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