Re: ARCH_PXA_ADX

[Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@avionic-design.de>]

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* Paul Bolle wrote:
> 0) Since v2.6.32 the mainline tree supports the "Avionic Design Xanthos
> Backlight Driver" (BACKLIGHT_ADX) and the "Avionic Design Xanthos
> watchdog" driver (ADX_WATCHDOG). These were added in commit 3b96ea9ef8
> ("[...] Add support for the Avionic Design Xanthos backlight device.")
> and 38461c5c08 ("[...] Add support for the Avionic Design Xanthos
> watchdog timer.").
> 
> 1) Both drivers' Kconfig symbols depend on the Kconfig symbol
> ARCH_PXA_ADX. At that time this symbol didn't exist. It still doesn't. I
> haven't been able to find anything remotely related (ie, I even did
> things like "git grep -i PXA | grep -i ADX").
> 
> 2) So it seems these two drivers could never have been built from the
> mainline tree. (I'm starting to think that the config tools should
> somehow check stuff like this.)
> 
> 3) Is the above correct? If it is, why shouldn't I submit the trivial
> patch to remove both these drivers?

Yes, all of that is correct. Unfortunately, I never got around to mainlining
the rest of the code. Feel free to remove both drivers and add my Acked-by.

Thierry

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