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From:   Tong Zhang <ztong0001@gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 4 Feb 2022 10:36:20 -0800
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: gs_fpgaboot: revert removed board specific code
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
        Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc:     Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>, linux-staging@lists.linux.dev,
        open list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        insop.song@gainspeed.com, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org
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On Fri, Feb 4, 2022 at 6:23 AM Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Feb 03, 2022 at 09:40:27PM -0800, Tong Zhang wrote:
> > Loading the driver will always fail since
> > xl_init_io() always returns -1. This driver is broken since 2014 and I
> > doubt anyone is actually using it, we could either remove it or revert
> > to the previous working version.
>
> Let's just remove it obviously no one is using it.
>

I am on the same page with you folks. We should remove it. I sent out
the patch to see if
anyone in the list is still interested in keeping it just in case. I
will send another patch to
remove it from the staging folder.

Thanks!
- Tong