From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.8 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS, URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 892C5C433E6 for ; Thu, 7 Jan 2021 08:05:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56A362312F for ; Thu, 7 Jan 2021 08:05:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726705AbhAGIFg (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Jan 2021 03:05:36 -0500 Received: from mail-ot1-f41.google.com ([209.85.210.41]:37857 "EHLO mail-ot1-f41.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1725763AbhAGIFf (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Jan 2021 03:05:35 -0500 Received: by mail-ot1-f41.google.com with SMTP id o11so5559124ote.4; Thu, 07 Jan 2021 00:05:19 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=0TPseVwGCXsOzziJOFXy0csIKxTAA1WaNx2ZI4idEKY=; b=qYDm+V2g02amIBsejIlly/kxYZMeLMqAAWMKA2EUK5gv1L7jnv2NLfzICoHEdxUnP1 r2WOSvBfObTNpVann5meU4MrT14hGOru7v7n8piZWymfFYs22t2ibczE5g+JFwGnUdbP 5DdqseVimErO1P9Uv1Sh/EiDxVEMc0sewoLephTM465UtNZK+l5JTgsyK8TK8PZxVsNB dBYpjLA2CRfJzvCEeswplZPcO7EwuZMbOi6jfHaMkpVLi/mJ1owEz0vly0C6vaL1uKzQ 29lgEfZPlIA1++r5fyuMfztUKA/BLpAYKkje993mcrMUTl0WD+jRImySMYxaJAz31Rb2 gMrw== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM5333ii966ffPw5pRYuEBflSltJ4dtnAZIgRo9B4CoiQelLxc+dpi J5T4y9B0rc8VrA02km+5hxviglCYU0gLa9flWQZ3K5io X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJzVAPf8/NQQQzT3zzrkoDzUv+P+SG+XgCFUWTKsU/u1ByX8ezoz8GuB2nVGz7LNk3BFgEKDp8LcWHb42uaO/Sc= X-Received: by 2002:a05:6830:1f5a:: with SMTP id u26mr5905584oth.250.1610006693990; Thu, 07 Jan 2021 00:04:53 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20210106184839.GA7773@alpha.franken.de> <20210107.101729.1936921832901251107.anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp> In-Reply-To: <20210107.101729.1936921832901251107.anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp> From: Geert Uytterhoeven Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2021 09:04:43 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/10] Remove support for TX49xx To: Atsushi Nemoto Cc: Alexandre Belloni , "R, Vignesh" , Liam Girdwood , ALSA Development Mailing List , Takashi Iwai , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, MTD Maling List , Miquel Raynal , linux-spi , linux-rtc@vger.kernel.org, Wim Van Sebroeck , Herbert Xu , Richard Weinberger , Jakub Kicinski , Guenter Roeck , Linux Watchdog Mailing List , Mark Brown , Matt Mackall , Dan Williams , Jaroslav Kysela , Alessandro Zummo , Thomas Bogendoerfer , netdev , "open list:BROADCOM NVRAM DRIVER" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Vinod , Linux Crypto Mailing List , dmaengine , "David S. Miller" Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-watchdog@vger.kernel.org Hi Nemoto-san, On Thu, Jan 7, 2021 at 2:18 AM Atsushi Nemoto wrote: > On Wed, 6 Jan 2021 21:41:24 +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > >> > Is that sufficient to keep it? > >> > >> for me it is. But now we probaly need some reverts then... > > > > Indeed. Fortunately not all of it, as some removals were TX4938-only. > > These patches should not break RBTX4927: > > net: tc35815: Drop support for TX49XX boards > spi: txx9: Remove driver > mtd: Remove drivers used by TX49xx > char: hw_random: Remove tx4939 driver > rtc: tx4939: Remove driver > ide: tx4938ide: Remove driver Indeed. > And these patches just break audio-support only. > > dma: tx49 removal > ASoC: txx9: Remove driver > > I think dma and ASoC drivers are hard to maintain now, and can be > dropped for basic support for RBTX4927. > (TX39 boards does not have audio-support, so dma txx9 driver can be > dropped too) Agreed, I don't test audio anyway, but I know it used to work (I had intended to use the board as an MPD media server, but never got beyond the prototyping phase). Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds