On Wed, 2020-10-28 at 06:54 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:

On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 08:14:15PM -0700, Sudeep Dutt wrote:

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This patch removes the MIC drivers from the kernel tree
since the corresponding devices have been discontinued.

Does "discontinued" mean "never shipped a device so no one has access
to
this hardware anymore", or does it mean "we stopped shipping devices
and
there are customers with this?"

Hi Greg,

We are not aware of any customers of the upstreamed MIC drivers. The 
drivers were upstreamed primarily to lay a foundation for enabling the
next generation MIC devices which did not ship.

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Removing the dma and char-misc changes in one patch and
merging via the char-misc tree is best to avoid any
potential build breakage.

Cc: Nikhil Rao <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Ashutosh Dixit <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Sudeep Dutt <redacted>

I like deleting code, can this go into 5.10-final?

Yes, we would prefer this goes into v5.10. I am hoping you can carry
the Ack from Vinod and the Reviewed-by from Sherry but I can resend the
patch with those updates in the commit message if required. I did
verify that this patch passes allmodconfig and allyesconfig builds with
your latest char-misc-next tree.

Many thanks for your help with this subsystem Greg.

Best Regards,
Sudeep Dutt