Messages in this thread | | | From | "Dutt, Sudeep" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH char-misc-next 1/1] misc: mic: remove the MIC drivers | Date | Wed, 28 Oct 2020 17:22:01 +0000 |
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On Wed, 2020-10-28 at 06:54 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 08:14:15PM -0700, Sudeep Dutt wrote: > > This patch removes the MIC drivers from the kernel tree > > since the corresponding devices have been discontinued. > > Does "discontinued" mean "never shipped a device so no one has access > to > this hardware anymore", or does it mean "we stopped shipping devices > and > there are customers with this?"
Hi Greg,
We are not aware of any customers of the upstreamed MIC drivers. The drivers were upstreamed primarily to lay a foundation for enabling the next generation MIC devices which did not ship.
> > Removing the dma and char-misc changes in one patch and > > merging via the char-misc tree is best to avoid any > > potential build breakage. > > > > Cc: Nikhil Rao <nikhil.rao@intel.com> > > Reviewed-by: Ashutosh Dixit <ashutosh.dixit@intel.com> > > Signed-off-by: Sudeep Dutt <sudeep.dutt@intel.com> > > I like deleting code, can this go into 5.10-final?
Yes, we would prefer this goes into v5.10. I am hoping you can carry the Ack from Vinod and the Reviewed-by from Sherry but I can resend the patch with those updates in the commit message if required. I did verify that this patch passes allmodconfig and allyesconfig builds with your latest char-misc-next tree.
Many thanks for your help with this subsystem Greg.
Best Regards, Sudeep Dutt
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