Messages in this thread | | | From | Linus Walleij <> | Date | Wed, 12 Jun 2019 14:27:12 +0200 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] fmc: Delete the FMC subsystem |
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On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 4:18 PM Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> 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>
After consent from the authors I have queued the removal in the GPIO subsystem tree.
Yours, Linus Walleij
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