On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 4:22 PM Linus Walleij [off-list ref] wrote:

On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 11:22 PM Arnd Bergmann [off-list ref] wrote:

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- Nobody uses this driver in practice, as the hardware platform
  was a dead end

Depends what you mean with dead end.

The hardware was deployed in a few million handsets from Samsung
and Sony.

Some have been picked up as targets for PostmarketOS:
https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Samsung_Galaxy_S_Advance_(samsung-i9070)
https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Samsung_Galaxy_SIII_mini_(samsung-i8190)

So it is no more dead end than anything else discontinued, and it
has a living community who want it suppored by the mainline
kernel if possible.

Mixup with SuperH-based ST40?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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