Return-path: Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.136]:54972 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751219AbdBXU5N (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Feb 2017 15:57:13 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3B67FD13-A482-4BEF-B619-DD9AF9CC129F@holtmann.org> References: <20170125222307.3044-1-robh@kernel.org> <3B67FD13-A482-4BEF-B619-DD9AF9CC129F@holtmann.org> From: Rob Herring Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2017 14:56:48 -0600 Message-ID: (sfid-20170224_215717_877587_1949601B) Subject: Re: [PATCH] NFC: remove TI nfcwilink driver To: Samuel Ortiz , Lauro Ramos Venancio , Aloisio Almeida Jr Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , linux-wireless , Ilan Elias , Marcel Holtmann Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 11:54 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? Rob