Re: [PATCH RESEND 0/4] Drop ROHM BD70528 support

From: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
To: Matti Vaittinen <matti.vaittinen@fi.rohmeurope.com>
Cc: Matti Vaittinen <mazziesaccount@gmail.com>,
	Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>,
	Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>,
	Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
	Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@gmail.com>,
	Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
	Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@bgdev.pl>,
	devicetree <devicetree@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"open list:GPIO SUBSYSTEM" <linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-power <linux-power@fi.rohmeurope.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND 0/4] Drop ROHM BD70528 support
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2021 18:10:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHp75Ve_qS0Qc8XLHLwFnWEPzQtgNfEeVr8q9L4gK2m5a-By0A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1637066805.git.matti.vaittinen@fi.rohmeurope.com>

On Tue, Nov 16, 2021 at 2:52 PM Matti Vaittinen
<matti.vaittinen@fi.rohmeurope.com> wrote:
>
> Drop ROHM BD70528 support
>
> Unfortunately there has not been a big demand for ROHM BD70528
> IC. The few users I know control PMIC from separate M4-core,
> which is not running Linux. I am not aware of any users of this
> Linux driver.
>
> While I did really like this IC and writing the drivers for it,
> seems like these drivers are becoming useless burden. So, I see
> no point in maintaining them. Let's just drop the drivers if
> there is no objections to this series. :(
>
> The regulator, WDG and power-supply drivers were already dropped.
>
> The RTC and clk drivers remain in use by few other ROHM IC drivers.
> Nevertheless, they are already converted to not depend the BD70528
> defines during previous cycle.
>
> This series cleans the remaining pieces, GPIO, MFD, dt-bindings and
> MAINTAINER entries. The GPIO code uses defines from MFD - but the GPIO
> part is also depending on MFD KConfig entry - so there should be no
> breakages even if the patches were applied to respective subsystem trees
> and were not carried via single tree.

FWIW, no objections from me.

> ---
>
> Matti Vaittinen (4):
>   dt-bindings: mfd: regulator: Drop BD70528 support
>   gpio: bd70528 Drop BD70528 support
>   mfd: bd70528: Drop BD70528 support
>   MAINTAINERS: bd70528: Drop ROHM BD70528 drivers
>
>  .../bindings/mfd/rohm,bd70528-pmic.txt        | 102 -----
>  .../regulator/rohm,bd70528-regulator.txt      |  68 ---
>  MAINTAINERS                                   |   8 -
>  drivers/gpio/Kconfig                          |  11 -
>  drivers/gpio/Makefile                         |   1 -
>  drivers/gpio/gpio-bd70528.c                   | 230 -----------
>  drivers/mfd/Kconfig                           |  17 -
>  drivers/mfd/Makefile                          |   1 -
>  drivers/mfd/rohm-bd70528.c                    | 314 --------------
>  include/linux/mfd/rohm-bd70528.h              | 389 ------------------
>  include/linux/mfd/rohm-generic.h              |   1 -
>  11 files changed, 1142 deletions(-)
>  delete mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/rohm,bd70528-pmic.txt
>  delete mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/regulator/rohm,bd70528-regulator.txt
>  delete mode 100644 drivers/gpio/gpio-bd70528.c
>  delete mode 100644 drivers/mfd/rohm-bd70528.c
>  delete mode 100644 include/linux/mfd/rohm-bd70528.h
>
> --
> 2.31.1
>
>
> --
> Matti Vaittinen, Linux device drivers
> ROHM Semiconductors, Finland SWDC
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>
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> Simon says - in Latin please.
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> Thanks to Simon Glass for the translation =]

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko