Return-path: Received: from mga03.intel.com ([134.134.136.65]:39475 "EHLO mga03.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751617AbdB0Kg7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Feb 2017 05:36:59 -0500 Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2017 11:36:14 +0100 From: Samuel Ortiz To: Rob Herring Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , linux-wireless , Marcel Holtmann Subject: Re: [PATCH] NFC: remove TI nfcwilink driver Message-ID: <20170227103614.GE13501@zurbaran.ger.intel.com> (sfid-20170227_113735_923875_D19A22FD) References: <20170125222307.3044-1-robh@kernel.org> <3B67FD13-A482-4BEF-B619-DD9AF9CC129F@holtmann.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi Rob, On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 02:56:48PM -0600, Rob Herring wrote: > 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? I'll take it, I need to catch up with pending NFC patches this week. Cheers, Samuel.