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From:   Sonny Sasaka <sonnysasaka@chromium.org>
Date:   Fri, 3 Apr 2020 10:18:40 -0700
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] tools/hciattach_ath3k: Load BT board data based on
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To:     Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
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        Zhifeng Cai <caiz@google.com>
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Hi Marcel,

There is no need to apply the patch. I sent the patch because I didn't
know of the deprecation plan. Thank you for the feedback.

On Fri, Apr 3, 2020 at 9:56 AM Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Sonny,
>
> > Thanks for your feedback. I will take note of this deprecation plan.
> > For now, Chromium OS can have a local patch to accomplish this and in
> > the future we will migrate to serdev instead of hciattach.
>
> I can apply the patch if you are still using it, but be aware of that fac=
t that we are going to kill hciattach latest when we move to the 6.x major =
version number.
>
> Using serdev is a lot better, cleaner and simpler in the end. So I would =
urge to make that change rather sooner than later.
>
> In addition, I would really like to kill hci_uart.ko driver as well. That=
 one has become a beast with a bunch of hacks that will eventually backfire=
. Since we have serdev now, I think each vendor should get their own driver=
. I have posted examples to btuart.ko and bt3wire.ko drivers that could be =
used as base.
>
> Regards
>
> Marcel
>