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From:   Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Date:   Thu, 28 Oct 2021 16:55:28 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/13] arm: milbeaut: remove select of non-existing PINCTRL_MILBEAUT
To:     Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Cc:     Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>,
        Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org>,
        Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>,
        Pengutronix Kernel Team <kernel@pengutronix.de>,
        Fabio Estevam <festevam@gmail.com>,
        Sekhar Nori <nsekhar@ti.com>,
        Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@bgdev.pl>,
        Linus Walleij <linusw@kernel.org>,
        Imre Kaloz <kaloz@openwrt.org>,
        Krzysztof Halasa <khalasa@piap.pl>,
        Avi Fishman <avifishman70@gmail.com>,
        Tomer Maimon <tmaimon77@gmail.com>,
        Tali Perry <tali.perry1@gmail.com>,
        Patrick Venture <venture@google.com>,
        Nancy Yuen <yuenn@google.com>,
        Benjamin Fair <benjaminfair@google.com>,
        Dinh Nguyen <dinguyen@kernel.org>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
        Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
        OpenBMC Maillist <openbmc@lists.ozlabs.org>,
        kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        Takao Orito <orito.takao@socionext.com>,
        Jassi Brar <jaswinder.singh@linaro.org>,
        Sugaya Taichi <sugaya.taichi@socionext.com>
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On Thu, Oct 28, 2021 at 4:19 PM Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The patch series "Add basic support for Socionext Milbeaut M10V SoC" (see
> Link) introduced the config ARCH_MILBEAUT_M10V "Milbeaut SC2000/M10V
> platform" in ./arch/arm/mach-milbeaut/ and intended to introduce timer,
> clock, pinctrl and serial controller drivers.
>
> However, during patch submission in March 2019, the introduction of the
> milbeaut pinctrl driver was dropped from v2 to v3 of the patch series.
> Since then, there was no further patch series to add this pinctrl driver
> later on.
>
> Hence, selecting PINCTRL_MILBEAUT in config is simply dangling and
> referring to a non-existing config symbols.
> Fortunately, ./scripts/checkkconfigsymbols.py warns:
>
> PINCTRL_MILBEAUT
> Referencing files: arch/arm/mach-milbeaut/Kconfig
>
> Remove this select of the non-existing PINCTRL_MILBEAUT for now.
>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/1551243056-10521-1-git-send-email-sugaya.taichi@socionext.com/
>
> Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>

I would take that as an indication that there is no interest in supporting this
platform upstream any more, the version we merged probably never worked
without the rest of the drivers.

I've added the original authors of the other drivers to Cc. Should we remove
all of this?

        Arnd