[PATCH] mtd: maps: kill DC21285 driver

Nicolas Pitre nicolas.pitre at linaro.org
Fri Nov 20 16:48:48 PST 2015


On Fri, 20 Nov 2015, Brian Norris wrote:

> This driver wouldn't build for over 5 years, between commit:
> 
>   bd31b85960a7 ("locking, ARM: Annotate low level hw locks as raw")
> 
> and
> 
>   e5babdf928e5 ("mtd: dc21285: use raw spinlock functions for nw_gpio_lock")
> 
> Also, it's unsafe to build into arbitrary kernels, as it might just
> start probing around memory, whether or not there's a compatible flash
> there. See comments here, last time someone tried to enable it:
> 
>   http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2015-May/347133.html
> 
> So, let's kill it. I bet no one will notice.

Waow.  And I'm apparently the author.  Last time I had access to 
hardware that could use it was in 2001.

Now I suppose this depends if there are still people with Netwinders out 
there, and if they're interested in having mainline running on it.


Nicolas



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