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SubjectRe: [PATCH RESEND 0/4] Drop ROHM BD70528 support
On Tue, Nov 16, 2021 at 2:52 PM Matti Vaittinen
<matti.vaittinen@fi.rohmeurope.com> wrote:
>
> Drop ROHM BD70528 support
>
> Unfortunately there has not been a big demand for ROHM BD70528
> IC. The few users I know control PMIC from separate M4-core,
> which is not running Linux. I am not aware of any users of this
> Linux driver.
>
> While I did really like this IC and writing the drivers for it,
> seems like these drivers are becoming useless burden. So, I see
> no point in maintaining them. Let's just drop the drivers if
> there is no objections to this series. :(
>
> The regulator, WDG and power-supply drivers were already dropped.
>
> The RTC and clk drivers remain in use by few other ROHM IC drivers.
> Nevertheless, they are already converted to not depend the BD70528
> defines during previous cycle.
>
> This series cleans the remaining pieces, GPIO, MFD, dt-bindings and
> MAINTAINER entries. The GPIO code uses defines from MFD - but the GPIO
> part is also depending on MFD KConfig entry - so there should be no
> breakages even if the patches were applied to respective subsystem trees
> and were not carried via single tree.

FWIW, no objections from me.

> ---
>
> Matti Vaittinen (4):
> dt-bindings: mfd: regulator: Drop BD70528 support
> gpio: bd70528 Drop BD70528 support
> mfd: bd70528: Drop BD70528 support
> MAINTAINERS: bd70528: Drop ROHM BD70528 drivers
>
> .../bindings/mfd/rohm,bd70528-pmic.txt | 102 -----
> .../regulator/rohm,bd70528-regulator.txt | 68 ---
> MAINTAINERS | 8 -
> drivers/gpio/Kconfig | 11 -
> drivers/gpio/Makefile | 1 -
> drivers/gpio/gpio-bd70528.c | 230 -----------
> drivers/mfd/Kconfig | 17 -
> drivers/mfd/Makefile | 1 -
> drivers/mfd/rohm-bd70528.c | 314 --------------
> include/linux/mfd/rohm-bd70528.h | 389 ------------------
> include/linux/mfd/rohm-generic.h | 1 -
> 11 files changed, 1142 deletions(-)
> delete mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/rohm,bd70528-pmic.txt
> delete mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/regulator/rohm,bd70528-regulator.txt
> delete mode 100644 drivers/gpio/gpio-bd70528.c
> delete mode 100644 drivers/mfd/rohm-bd70528.c
> delete mode 100644 include/linux/mfd/rohm-bd70528.h
>
> --
> 2.31.1
>
>
> --
> Matti Vaittinen, Linux device drivers
> ROHM Semiconductors, Finland SWDC
> Kiviharjunlenkki 1E
> 90220 OULU
> FINLAND
>
> ~~~ "I don't think so," said Rene Descartes. Just then he vanished ~~~
> Simon says - in Latin please.
> ~~~ "non cogito me" dixit Rene Descarte, deinde evanescavit ~~~
> Thanks to Simon Glass for the translation =]



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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko

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