[PATCH] ARM: orion: remove unreferenced board-d2net.c

Andrew Lunn andrew at lunn.ch
Thu Jun 9 09:36:08 PDT 2016


On Thu, Jun 09, 2016 at 04:52:35PM +0100, Ben Dooks wrote:
> On 09/06/16 15:12, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > On Thu, 9 Jun 2016 16:10:06 +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > 
> >>> That being said, this has been broken more than 2 years ago, and nobody
> >>> noticed. Doesn't this mean that we could get rid of the support for
> >>> this board entirely? :)  
> >>
> >> Well, all it means is the LEDs don't blink. If the disk was not
> >> spinning, or the ethernet device missing, i would agree with you. But
> >> somebody could be using this device and don't notice the difference
> >> with the LEDs.
> 
> Surely DT can manage blinking LEDs??

There is an additional GPIO needed. However, i think a pin hog should
allow this to be represented in DT. Two years ago, i don't think this
sort of hogging existed.

     Andrew



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