Return-path: Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.136]:59732 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751291AbdBXVxC (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Feb 2017 16:53:02 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <9E986B17-64EA-46E5-BEE3-76217E31B0D1@holtmann.org> References: <20170125222307.3044-1-robh@kernel.org> <3B67FD13-A482-4BEF-B619-DD9AF9CC129F@holtmann.org> <9E986B17-64EA-46E5-BEE3-76217E31B0D1@holtmann.org> From: Rob Herring Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2017 15:52:37 -0600 Message-ID: (sfid-20170224_225324_843458_A7853791) Subject: Re: [PATCH] NFC: remove TI nfcwilink driver To: Marcel Holtmann Cc: Samuel Ortiz , Lauro Ramos Venancio , Aloisio Almeida Jr , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , linux-wireless , Ilan Elias Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 3:43 PM, Marcel Holtmann wrote: > Hi Rob, > >>>> It appears that TI WiLink devices including NFC (WL185x/WL189x) never >>>> shipped. The only information I found were announcements in Feb >>>> 2012 about the parts. There's been no activity on this driver besided >>>> common changes since initially added in Jan 2012. There's also no in >>>> users that instantiate the platform device (nor DT bindings). >>>> >>>> This is a first step in removing TI ST (shared transport) driver in >>>> favor of extending the BT hci_ll driver to support WL183x chips. >>> >>> since the firmware files TINfcInit_* also never made it into the linux-firmware tree, I have no idea who is using this driver. I am actually fine with removing it since it would be easy enough to bring back based on hci_ll driver once there is hardware to test this on. >> >> Ping. Someone going to pick up this patch? > > if Samuel does not have anything pending for his tree, I can take it through bluetooth-next tree. >From the looks of -next, it doesn't appear so. Rob