On 25/09/2022 at 14:24, Linus Walleij wrote:

On Sat, Sep 24, 2022 at 4:19 PM Dominik Brodowski
[off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

From: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Subject: [PATCH] pcmcia: remove AT91RM9200 Compact Flash driver

As noted by Arnd Bergmann, "we used to have three drivers for the same
hardware (pcmcia, pata and ide), and only the pcmcia driver remained
in the tree after drivers/ide/ was removed and pata_at91 did not get
converted to DT". "There is no dts file in tree that actually declares
either of them, so chances are that nobody is actually using the CF
slot on at91 any more."[1]

On this rationale, remove the AT91RM9200 Compact Flash driver, which
also assists in reaching "the goal of stopping exporting OF-specific
APIs of gpiolib".[2]

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/68c63077-848b-45f5-8aca-ed995391f2b6@www.fastmail.com/ (local)
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/Yy6d7TjqzUwGQnQa@penguin/ (local)

Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>

Acked-by: Linus Walleij <redacted>

If someone actually has an AT91 board with this hardware and
want to be able to use it by converting this driver to device tree,
this is the time to step up.

Agreed with what was said. If people want reference code to make this 
driver revive, git history is there to help.

Acked-by: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@microchip.com>

Regards,
   Nicolas



-- 
Nicolas Ferre

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