Re: [PATCH 00/14] mfd: unused driver purge

[Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Sep 09, 2026 at 03:21:37PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> 
> As part of my cleanup of old platforms, I had a look at all drivers that
> may have become unused because the last platform_data or DT definition
> was removed, or because of unmet Kconfig dependencies.
> 
> These are all the mfd drivers I found. The first ten in the list
> actually turned out to have been unusable long before my series, and
> I have added explanations on how I determined this in each patch. The
> last four patches are still in use in linux-7.3 but become unused after
> my series [1] that I hope to get merged for 7.4.
> 
> Somewhat unorthodox, I took a shortcut here and remove both the mfd drivers
> and the corresponding subsystem drivers (gpio, hwmon, iio, input, led,
> media, power, regulator, rtc, video, watchdog, asoc) in a combined patch,
> to simplify the interdependencies: removing just the mfd driver would
> leave unselectable or broken drivers in other subsystems.  I also have
> additional patches for each of the other subsystems, currently a total
> of 300 patches, many of which still need better testing or proper
> changelog texts.
> 
> Please let me know if you all think this approach is ok, or if I should
> explode this further and turn these 14 patches into 70 individual ones
> by splitting them per subsystem.

Sounds good to me, especially if Lee makes an immutable branch from this
pull so we can all pull it in...

Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> # for input

Thanks.

-- 
Dmitry