[PATCH v2 23/23] at91: Remove mAgic and ISI device code

Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD plagnioj at jcrosoft.com
Tue Apr 26 00:39:24 EDT 2011


On 08:12 Fri 22 Apr     , Ryan Mallon wrote:
> On 22/04/11 05:33, H Hartley Sweeten wrote:
> > On Wednesday, April 20, 2011 10:42 PM, Ryan Mallon wrote:
> >>
> >> The AT572D940HF mAgic device and the AT91SAM9263 ISI device do not
> >> have drivers yet and therefore the platform code in arch/arm/mach-at91
> >> is unused and can be removed.
> > 
> > Is anyone planning on adding these drivers?
> > 
> > I wonder if it makes sense to add the infrastructure to devices.[ch] and
> > convert the users even it the drivers are not in mainline yet?
> 
> I removed them because there is currently a push to reduce the size of
> the ARM tree. The ISI code has been there since 2008 and the mAgic
> device code since 2009 without drivers. The ISI device at least is
> supported on more than one variant, but only had code present for the
> AT91SAM9263.
> 
> I think it is better to remove them now, and then if/when drivers get
> added the support code can be added to the common framework.
NACK I do not want to remove code just to reduce line code for soc

factorize ok
remove soc resources no

for the ISI I plan to add it but I work on something else by now

and some patch have already been send to the v4l ML

Best Regards,
J.



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