Date:   Thu, 18 Nov 2021 08:55:14 +0000
From:   Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
To:     Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@bgdev.pl>
Cc:     Matti Vaittinen <mazziesaccount@gmail.com>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>,
        Matti Vaittinen <matti.vaittinen@fi.rohmeurope.com>,
        Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
        Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@gmail.com>,
        Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>,
        Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
        devicetree <devicetree@vger.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        "open list:GPIO SUBSYSTEM" <linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org>,
        linux-power <linux-power@fi.rohmeurope.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND 0/4] Drop ROHM BD70528 support
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On Tue, 16 Nov 2021, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 16, 2021 at 7:41 PM Matti Vaittinen
> <mazziesaccount@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 11/16/21 18:10, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > > On Tue, Nov 16, 2021 at 2:52 PM Matti Vaittinen
> > > <matti.vaittinen@fi.rohmeurope.com> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Drop ROHM BD70528 support
> > >>
> > >> Unfortunately there has not been a big demand for ROHM BD70528
> > >> IC. The few users I know control PMIC from separate M4-core,
> > >> which is not running Linux. I am not aware of any users of this
> > >> Linux driver.
> > >>
> > >> While I did really like this IC and writing the drivers for it,
> > >> seems like these drivers are becoming useless burden. So, I see
> > >> no point in maintaining them. Let's just drop the drivers if
> > >> there is no objections to this series. :(
> > >>
> > >> The regulator, WDG and power-supply drivers were already dropped.
> > >>
> > >> The RTC and clk drivers remain in use by few other ROHM IC drivers.
> > >> Nevertheless, they are already converted to not depend the BD70528
> > >> defines during previous cycle.
> > >>
> > >> This series cleans the remaining pieces, GPIO, MFD, dt-bindings and
> > >> MAINTAINER entries. The GPIO code uses defines from MFD - but the GPIO
> > >> part is also depending on MFD KConfig entry - so there should be no
> > >> breakages even if the patches were applied to respective subsystem trees
> > >> and were not carried via single tree.
> > >
> > > FWIW, no objections from me.
> >
> > Thanks Andy!
> >
> > I see acks from Andu, Bartosz, Lee and Rob. It'd be nice to see ack from
> > Linus W too - but other than that - I guess this is good to go. Any
> > preferences regarding the tree(s) that could carry the patches? All via
> > MFD or each patch merged to the subsystem it fits the best?
> >
> > Best Regards
> >         Matti Vaittinen
> 
> Normally Lee takes MFD patches together with those touching relevant subsystems.

Yep, it's on the list.

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