Re: [PATCH 00/30] ARM: pxa: remove all unused boards&drivers

From: Lee Jones
Date: Thu Oct 20 2022 - 03:13:40 EST


On Wed, 19 Oct 2022, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
>
> Most of the legacy PXA board files were marked as unused in linux-5.19 and
> can get removed in linux-6.2. There is support for pxa250/pxa270/pxa300
> using devicetree already, which supports a number of boards, but progress
> on converting the remaining ones has stalled over the past few years.
>
> The two boards that are left in the tree for now are the three 'sharpsl'
> variants (spitz/akita/borzoi) and the 'gumstix' family of machines.
> Both of these are supported by qemu, which can be helpful for completing
> the DT conversion.
>
> Only PXA25x and PXA27x are left with full boardfile support, so PXA300
> can get a lot simpler while still working with DT, and PXA310/320/93x
> can be removed entirely.
>
> A good number of drivers become impossible to select after this, so
> each of these also get dropped. I'm including the driver patches in the
> series here and can either merge them through the soc tree, or they
> can get picked up by the individual subsystem maintainers. Since both
> the platform and the drivers get removed, the order should not matter.
>
> Note that the patches here are generated with 'git format-patch -D'
> and don't contain the contents of removed files because of the
> significant size (the first patch is close to a megabyte).
>
> Arnd Bergmann (30):
> ARM: pxa: remove unused board files
> ARM: pxa: remove irda leftover
> ARM: pxa: remove unused pxa3xx-ulpi
> ARM: pxa: drop pxa310/pxa320/pxa93x support
> ARM: pxa: prune unused device support
> power: remove z2_battery driver
> power: remove tosa_battery driver
> ata: remove palmld pata driver
> backlight: remove pxa tosa support
> input: remove pxa930_trkball driver
> input: remove pxa930_rotary keyboard driver
> input: remove zylonite touchscreen driver
> pcmcia: remove unused pxa/sa1100 drivers
> ASoC: pxa: remove unused board support
> ALSA: remove ac97 bus support
> mfd: remove wm97xx driver
> input: remove wm97xx support
> parport: remove ax88796 driver
> power: remove pda_power supply driver
> rtc: remove v3020 driver
> mfd: remove toshiba tmio drivers
> mfd: remove ucb1400 support
> mtd: remove tmio_nand driver
> mmc: remove tmio_mmc driver
> fbdev: remove tmiofb driver
> fbdev: remove w100fb driver
> leds: remove asic3 driver
> usb: remove ohci-tmio driver
> w1: remove ds1wm driver
> mfd: remove htc-pasic3 driver

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