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

[Linus Walleij]

On Tue, Feb 10, 2026 at 12:01 PM Wolfram Sang
<wsa+renesas at sang-engineering.com> wrote:

[Page Mathieu who I think wrote this driver]

> 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.

Fair enough, these hwsemaphores were only used when communicating
with two DSPs that we never managed to support upstream.

Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linusw at kernel.org>

Yours,
Linus Walleij