On Mon, Nov 15, 2021 at 11:14 AM Lars-Peter Clausen [off-list ref] wrote:

On 11/15/21 9:53 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

This field is never set, and serves no purpose, so remove it.

I agree that we should remove it. Its been legacy support code for a
while, but the description that there is no user is not right.

The tegra20_spdif driver obviously uses it and that user is removed in
this patch. I think it makes sense to split that out into a separate
patch with a description why the driver will still work even with
slave_id removed. Maybe the best is to remove the whole tegra20_spdif
driver.

Ok, I'll split out the tegra patch and try to come up with a better
description for it. What I saw in that driver is it just passes down the
slave_id number from a 'struct resource', but there is nothing in
the kernel that sets up this resource.

Do you or someone else have more information on the state of this
driver? I can see that it does not contain any of_device_id based
probing, so it seems that this is either dead code, the platform_device
gets created by some other code that is no longer compatible with
this driver.

      Arnd