[PATCH 0/2] hwspinlock: remove platform_data from subsystem

Wolfram Sang wsa+renesas at sang-engineering.com
Tue Feb 10 03:00:54 PST 2026


As stated in patch 1, the U8500 driver is clearly unused for more than a
decade. Removing it allows us to remove generic platform_data support.
Both removals make the upcoming refactoring (headers and lock
allocation) in the hwspinlock subsystem easier.

Wolfram Sang (2):
  hwspinlock: u8500: delete driver
  hwspinlock: remove now unused pdata from header file

 MAINTAINERS                     |   1 -
 drivers/hwspinlock/Kconfig      |  10 ---
 drivers/hwspinlock/Makefile     |   1 -
 drivers/hwspinlock/u8500_hsem.c | 155 --------------------------------
 include/linux/hwspinlock.h      |  28 ------
 5 files changed, 195 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 drivers/hwspinlock/u8500_hsem.c

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