Messages in this thread | | | From | Federico Vaga <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] fmc: Delete the FMC subsystem | Date | Tue, 11 Jun 2019 18:40:05 +0200 |
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Well I do not know if it make sense to make it stronger with:
Signed-off-by: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@cern.ch>
As you want
On Monday, June 10, 2019 4:18:09 PM CEST Linus Walleij wrote: > The FMC subsystem was created in 2012 with the ambition to > drive development of drivers for this hardware upstream. > > The current implementation has architectural flaws and would > need to be revamped using real hardware to something that can > reuse existing kernel abstractions in the subsystems for e.g. > I2C, FPGA and GPIO. > > We have concluded that for the mainline kernel it will be > better to delete the subsystem and start over with a clean > slate when/if an active maintainer steps up. > > For details see: > https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/10/29/534 > > Suggested-by: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@cern.ch> > Cc: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@cern.ch> > Cc: Pat Riehecky <riehecky@fnal.gov> > Cc: Alessandro Rubini <rubini@gnudd.com> > Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> > --- > If people are happy with this, I will queue the removal > in the GPIO kernel tree. > --- > Documentation/fmc/API.txt | 47 --- > Documentation/fmc/FMC-and-SDB.txt | 88 ------ > Documentation/fmc/carrier.txt | 311 -------------------- > Documentation/fmc/fmc-chardev.txt | 64 ---- > Documentation/fmc/fmc-fakedev.txt | 36 --- > Documentation/fmc/fmc-trivial.txt | 17 -- > Documentation/fmc/fmc-write-eeprom.txt | 98 ------- > Documentation/fmc/identifiers.txt | 168 ----------- > Documentation/fmc/mezzanine.txt | 123 -------- > Documentation/fmc/parameters.txt | 56 ---- > drivers/fmc/Kconfig | 51 ---- > drivers/fmc/Makefile | 15 - > drivers/fmc/fmc-chardev.c | 200 ------------- > drivers/fmc/fmc-core.c | 389 ------------------------- > drivers/fmc/fmc-debug.c | 173 ----------- > drivers/fmc/fmc-dump.c | 59 ---- > drivers/fmc/fmc-fakedev.c | 355 ---------------------- > drivers/fmc/fmc-match.c | 114 -------- > drivers/fmc/fmc-private.h | 9 - > drivers/fmc/fmc-sdb.c | 220 -------------- > drivers/fmc/fmc-trivial.c | 102 ------- > drivers/fmc/fmc-write-eeprom.c | 176 ----------- > drivers/fmc/fru-parse.c | 81 ----- > include/linux/fmc-sdb.h | 39 --- > include/linux/fmc.h | 272 ----------------- > 25 files changed, 3263 deletions(-) > delete mode 100644 Documentation/fmc/API.txt > delete mode 100644 Documentation/fmc/FMC-and-SDB.txt > delete mode 100644 Documentation/fmc/carrier.txt > delete mode 100644 Documentation/fmc/fmc-chardev.txt > delete mode 100644 Documentation/fmc/fmc-fakedev.txt > delete mode 100644 Documentation/fmc/fmc-trivial.txt > delete mode 100644 Documentation/fmc/fmc-write-eeprom.txt > delete mode 100644 Documentation/fmc/identifiers.txt > delete mode 100644 Documentation/fmc/mezzanine.txt > delete mode 100644 Documentation/fmc/parameters.txt > delete mode 100644 drivers/fmc/Kconfig > delete mode 100644 drivers/fmc/Makefile > delete mode 100644 drivers/fmc/fmc-chardev.c > delete mode 100644 drivers/fmc/fmc-core.c > delete mode 100644 drivers/fmc/fmc-debug.c > delete mode 100644 drivers/fmc/fmc-dump.c > delete mode 100644 drivers/fmc/fmc-fakedev.c > delete mode 100644 drivers/fmc/fmc-match.c > delete mode 100644 drivers/fmc/fmc-private.h > delete mode 100644 drivers/fmc/fmc-sdb.c > delete mode 100644 drivers/fmc/fmc-trivial.c > delete mode 100644 drivers/fmc/fmc-write-eeprom.c > delete mode 100644 drivers/fmc/fru-parse.c > delete mode 100644 include/linux/fmc-sdb.h > delete mode 100644 include/linux/fmc.h > > diff --git a/Documentation/fmc/API.txt b/Documentation/fmc/API.txt > deleted file mode 100644 > index 06b06b92c794..000000000000 > diff --git a/Documentation/fmc/FMC-and-SDB.txt > b/Documentation/fmc/FMC-and-SDB.txt deleted file mode 100644 > index fa14e0b24521..000000000000 > diff --git a/Documentation/fmc/carrier.txt b/Documentation/fmc/carrier.txt > deleted file mode 100644 > index 5e4f1dd3e98b..000000000000 > diff --git a/Documentation/fmc/fmc-chardev.txt > b/Documentation/fmc/fmc-chardev.txt deleted file mode 100644 > index d9ccb278e597..000000000000 > diff --git a/Documentation/fmc/fmc-fakedev.txt > b/Documentation/fmc/fmc-fakedev.txt deleted file mode 100644 > index e85b74a4ae30..000000000000 > diff --git a/Documentation/fmc/fmc-trivial.txt > b/Documentation/fmc/fmc-trivial.txt deleted file mode 100644 > index d1910bc67159..000000000000 > diff --git a/Documentation/fmc/fmc-write-eeprom.txt > b/Documentation/fmc/fmc-write-eeprom.txt deleted file mode 100644 > index e0a9712156aa..000000000000 > diff --git a/Documentation/fmc/identifiers.txt > b/Documentation/fmc/identifiers.txt deleted file mode 100644 > index 3bb577ff0d52..000000000000 > diff --git a/Documentation/fmc/mezzanine.txt > b/Documentation/fmc/mezzanine.txt deleted file mode 100644 > index 87910dbfc91e..000000000000 > diff --git a/Documentation/fmc/parameters.txt > b/Documentation/fmc/parameters.txt deleted file mode 100644 > index 59edf088e3a4..000000000000 > diff --git a/drivers/fmc/Kconfig b/drivers/fmc/Kconfig > deleted file mode 100644 > index 3a75f4256d08..000000000000 > diff --git a/drivers/fmc/Makefile b/drivers/fmc/Makefile > deleted file mode 100644 > index e3da6192cf39..000000000000 > diff --git a/drivers/fmc/fmc-chardev.c b/drivers/fmc/fmc-chardev.c > deleted file mode 100644 > index 5ecf4090a610..000000000000 > diff --git a/drivers/fmc/fmc-core.c b/drivers/fmc/fmc-core.c > deleted file mode 100644 > index bbcb505d1522..000000000000 > diff --git a/drivers/fmc/fmc-debug.c b/drivers/fmc/fmc-debug.c > deleted file mode 100644 > index 32930722770c..000000000000 > diff --git a/drivers/fmc/fmc-dump.c b/drivers/fmc/fmc-dump.c > deleted file mode 100644 > index cd1df475b254..000000000000 > diff --git a/drivers/fmc/fmc-fakedev.c b/drivers/fmc/fmc-fakedev.c > deleted file mode 100644 > index 941d0930969a..000000000000 > diff --git a/drivers/fmc/fmc-match.c b/drivers/fmc/fmc-match.c > deleted file mode 100644 > index a0956d1f7550..000000000000 > diff --git a/drivers/fmc/fmc-private.h b/drivers/fmc/fmc-private.h > deleted file mode 100644 > index 1e5136643bdc..000000000000 > diff --git a/drivers/fmc/fmc-sdb.c b/drivers/fmc/fmc-sdb.c > deleted file mode 100644 > index d0e65b86dc22..000000000000 > diff --git a/drivers/fmc/fmc-trivial.c b/drivers/fmc/fmc-trivial.c > deleted file mode 100644 > index b99dbc7ee203..000000000000 > diff --git a/drivers/fmc/fmc-write-eeprom.c b/drivers/fmc/fmc-write-eeprom.c > deleted file mode 100644 > index 3eb81bb1f1fc..000000000000 > diff --git a/drivers/fmc/fru-parse.c b/drivers/fmc/fru-parse.c > deleted file mode 100644 > index eb21480d399f..000000000000 > diff --git a/include/linux/fmc-sdb.h b/include/linux/fmc-sdb.h > deleted file mode 100644 > index bec899f0867c..000000000000 > diff --git a/include/linux/fmc.h b/include/linux/fmc.h > deleted file mode 100644 > index f0d482d29df7..000000000000
-- Federico Vaga [CERN BE-CO-HT]
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