Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] vlynq: remove bus support

From: Greg KH
Date: Sat Sep 16 2023 - 07:44:35 EST


On Sat, Sep 16, 2023 at 11:11:22AM +0200, Wolfram Sang wrote:
> From: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> I'd like to clean up the 'drivers' directory and Kconfig menu, at least
> a little. One major thing I noticed is that VLYNQ can actually be
> removed. From patch 2:
>
> ---
> There are no users with a vlynq_driver in the Kernel tree. So, remove
> the bus driver which hardly has seen any activity since 2009. It was
> even marked EXPERIMENTAL as long as that symbol existed. OpenWRT had
> some out-of-tree drivers which they probably intended to upport, but AR7
> devices are not supported anymore because they are "stuck with Kernel
> 3.18" [1]. So, this code can go nowadays.
>
> [1] https://openwrt.org/docs/techref/targets/ar7
> ---
>
> Patch 1 removes MIPS specific bus initialization code which is the only
> user of the VLYNQ bus currently.
>
> Sending out as RFC to gather comments. Patches are based on 6.6-rc1 and
> created with "--irreversible-delete" to save some space. They are
> compile tested only, buildbots were happy.
>
> I think this mainly goes to Florian Fainelli. Florian, what do you
> think?

Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>