Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 26 Sep 2022 17:26:47 +0200 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] pcmcia: at91_cf: switch to using gpiod API | From | Nicolas Ferre <> |
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On 25/09/2022 at 14:24, Linus Walleij wrote: > On Sat, Sep 24, 2022 at 4:19 PM Dominik Brodowski > <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> wrote: > >> From: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> >> Subject: [PATCH] pcmcia: remove AT91RM9200 Compact Flash driver >> >> As noted by Arnd Bergmann, "we used to have three drivers for the same >> hardware (pcmcia, pata and ide), and only the pcmcia driver remained >> in the tree after drivers/ide/ was removed and pata_at91 did not get >> converted to DT". "There is no dts file in tree that actually declares >> either of them, so chances are that nobody is actually using the CF >> slot on at91 any more."[1] >> >> On this rationale, remove the AT91RM9200 Compact Flash driver, which >> also assists in reaching "the goal of stopping exporting OF-specific >> APIs of gpiolib".[2] >> >> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/68c63077-848b-45f5-8aca-ed995391f2b6@www.fastmail.com/ >> [2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/Yy6d7TjqzUwGQnQa@penguin/ >> >> Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> > > Acked-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> > > If someone actually has an AT91 board with this hardware and > want to be able to use it by converting this driver to device tree, > this is the time to step up.
Agreed with what was said. If people want reference code to make this driver revive, git history is there to help.
Acked-by: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@microchip.com>
Regards, Nicolas
-- Nicolas Ferre
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