[PATCH V3 01/14] watchdog/mpcore_wdt: Mark it as BROKEN

[Viresh Kumar]

Wow!! So many replies, let me reply to everyone in this chain.

On 18 June 2013 22:05, Olof Johansson <olof at lixom.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 9:11 AM, Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at arm.com> wrote:
>> On 18/06/13 16:42, Guenter Roeck wrote:
>>> On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 08:50:25PM +0530, Viresh Kumar wrote:

>>>> Lets mark it broken until somebody with this hardware gets up and fixes it.
>>>>
>>> I must be missing something. What is the point of the remaining patches in this
>>> case ?

In case somebody wakes up and tries to fix this driver, he doesn't have to
write stuff which I already wrote. That's it. This stuff was pending in my tree
for more than a year now and I wanted to get rid of it (without deleting it) :)

>> Indeed. This looks like pointless churn to me, unless someone actually
>> picks up the driver and fixes it for good.
>>
>> If nobody cares enough about it, then maybe it should be moved into
>> staging and eventually retired...
>
>
> That was a year ago, and nobody has done anything to the driver. Just
> remove it -- if someone wants to do the work later on it's easy to
> revert the commit and start over.
>
> Keeping code in the kernel but marking it BROKEN is only useful if we
> think someone will fix it soon. It seems very unlikely in this case.

I believed that this is the driver which will be used by all cortex family, i.e.
all ARM SMP platforms, isn't it? I am sure atleast the A9 family had this.

If no, then which ones are the real users of this driver/hardware?
If yes, Why isn't anybody using this?

I will send a patch that will delete this driver and will provide link to my
patches, in case somebody wants it back in future.

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Viresh