Re: [PATCH] pcmcia: at91_cf: switch to using gpiod API

[Nicolas Ferre]

On 25/09/2022 at 14:24, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 24, 2022 at 4:19 PM Dominik Brodowski
> <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > From: Dominik Brodowski <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Subject: [PATCH] pcmcia: remove AT91RM9200 Compact Flash driver
> >
> > As noted by Arnd Bergmann, "we used to have three drivers for the same
> > hardware (pcmcia, pata and ide), and only the pcmcia driver remained
> > in the tree after drivers/ide/ was removed and pata_at91 did not get
> > converted to DT". "There is no dts file in tree that actually declares
> > either of them, so chances are that nobody is actually using the CF
> > slot on at91 any more."[1]
> >
> > On this rationale, remove the AT91RM9200 Compact Flash driver, which
> > also assists in reaching "the goal of stopping exporting OF-specific
> > APIs of gpiolib".[2]
> >
> > [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/68c63077-848b-45f5-8aca-ed995391f2b6@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
> > [2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/Yy6d7TjqzUwGQnQa@penguin/
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Acked-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> If someone actually has an AT91 board with this hardware and
> want to be able to use it by converting this driver to device tree,
> this is the time to step up.

Agreed with what was said. If people want reference code to make this 
driver revive, git history is there to help.

Acked-by: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Regards,
  Nicolas



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Nicolas Ferre