Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 1 Nov 2021 22:53:40 +0900 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 09/13] arm: milbeaut: remove select of non-existing PINCTRL_MILBEAUT | From | Sugaya Taichi <> |
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On 2021/10/28 23:55, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Thu, Oct 28, 2021 at 4:19 PM Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> The patch series "Add basic support for Socionext Milbeaut M10V SoC" (see >> Link) introduced the config ARCH_MILBEAUT_M10V "Milbeaut SC2000/M10V >> platform" in ./arch/arm/mach-milbeaut/ and intended to introduce timer, >> clock, pinctrl and serial controller drivers. >> >> However, during patch submission in March 2019, the introduction of the >> milbeaut pinctrl driver was dropped from v2 to v3 of the patch series. >> Since then, there was no further patch series to add this pinctrl driver >> later on. >> >> Hence, selecting PINCTRL_MILBEAUT in config is simply dangling and >> referring to a non-existing config symbols. >> Fortunately, ./scripts/checkkconfigsymbols.py warns: >> >> PINCTRL_MILBEAUT >> Referencing files: arch/arm/mach-milbeaut/Kconfig >> >> Remove this select of the non-existing PINCTRL_MILBEAUT for now. >> >> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/1551243056-10521-1-git-send-email-sugaya.taichi@socionext.com/ >> >> Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com> > > I would take that as an indication that there is no interest in supporting this > platform upstream any more, the version we merged probably never worked > without the rest of the drivers. > > I've added the original authors of the other drivers to Cc. Should we remove > all of this? > > Arnd >
It is okay to drop PINCTRL_MILBEAUT. I will add it again when working at the pinctrl driver. But don`t remove the milbeaut platform. Actually we haven't been doing maintenance recently, but we have plans to add drivers in the future.
Thanks, Taichi Sugaya
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