Stefan Wahren writes: > Hi Tuomas, > >> Tuomas Tynkkynen 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 > > 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 think the main concern would be if we removed things necessary for 6by9's new vcsm (the one that will let us do dma-buf sharing between media decode and DRM). On the other hand, git revert is a thing, so it's not like we actually lose anything.