From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B80D6C433EF for ; Mon, 1 Nov 2021 13:53:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DEE960F36 for ; Mon, 1 Nov 2021 13:53:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S232053AbhKAN4R (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Nov 2021 09:56:17 -0400 Received: from mx.socionext.com ([202.248.49.38]:59494 "EHLO mx.socionext.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S231366AbhKAN4P (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Nov 2021 09:56:15 -0400 Received: from unknown (HELO kinkan2-ex.css.socionext.com) ([172.31.9.52]) by mx.socionext.com with ESMTP; 01 Nov 2021 22:53:41 +0900 Received: from mail.mfilter.local (m-filter-2 [10.213.24.62]) by kinkan2-ex.css.socionext.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F1FF203F6D9; Mon, 1 Nov 2021 22:53:41 +0900 (JST) Received: from 172.31.9.53 (172.31.9.53) by m-FILTER with ESMTP; Mon, 1 Nov 2021 22:53:41 +0900 Received: from yuzu2.css.socionext.com (yuzu2 [172.31.9.57]) by iyokan2.css.socionext.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46B83B62AB; Mon, 1 Nov 2021 22:53:41 +0900 (JST) Received: from [10.212.1.157] (unknown [10.212.1.157]) by yuzu2.css.socionext.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C209CB6291; Mon, 1 Nov 2021 22:53:40 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <3fd7f2a2-9883-af35-b5d1-c9d68875bb48@socionext.com> Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2021 22:53:40 +0900 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/91.2.1 Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/13] arm: milbeaut: remove select of non-existing PINCTRL_MILBEAUT Content-Language: en-US To: Arnd Bergmann , Lukas Bulwahn Cc: Russell King , Shawn Guo , Sascha Hauer , Pengutronix Kernel Team , Fabio Estevam , Sekhar Nori , Bartosz Golaszewski , Linus Walleij , Imre Kaloz , Krzysztof Halasa , Avi Fishman , Tomer Maimon , Tali Perry , Patrick Venture , Nancy Yuen , Benjamin Fair , Dinh Nguyen , Linux ARM , OpenBMC Maillist , kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List , Takao Orito , Jassi Brar References: <20211028141938.3530-1-lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com> <20211028141938.3530-10-lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com> From: Sugaya Taichi In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 2021/10/28 23:55, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Thu, Oct 28, 2021 at 4:19 PM Lukas Bulwahn wrote: >> >> The patch series "Add basic support for Socionext Milbeaut M10V SoC" (see >> Link) introduced the config ARCH_MILBEAUT_M10V "Milbeaut SC2000/M10V >> platform" in ./arch/arm/mach-milbeaut/ and intended to introduce timer, >> clock, pinctrl and serial controller drivers. >> >> However, during patch submission in March 2019, the introduction of the >> milbeaut pinctrl driver was dropped from v2 to v3 of the patch series. >> Since then, there was no further patch series to add this pinctrl driver >> later on. >> >> Hence, selecting PINCTRL_MILBEAUT in config is simply dangling and >> referring to a non-existing config symbols. >> Fortunately, ./scripts/checkkconfigsymbols.py warns: >> >> PINCTRL_MILBEAUT >> Referencing files: arch/arm/mach-milbeaut/Kconfig >> >> Remove this select of the non-existing PINCTRL_MILBEAUT for now. >> >> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/1551243056-10521-1-git-send-email-sugaya.taichi@socionext.com/ >> >> Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn > > I would take that as an indication that there is no interest in supporting this > platform upstream any more, the version we merged probably never worked > without the rest of the drivers. > > I've added the original authors of the other drivers to Cc. Should we remove > all of this? > > Arnd > It is okay to drop PINCTRL_MILBEAUT. I will add it again when working at the pinctrl driver. But don`t remove the milbeaut platform. Actually we haven't been doing maintenance recently, but we have plans to add drivers in the future. Thanks, Taichi Sugaya