Re: [PATCH 1/2] Input: lm8323 - remove driver

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

On Mon, Nov 09, 2026 at 08:53:58AM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 9, 2026, at 08:29, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > The LM8323 keypad driver relies exclusively on legacy platform data,
> > has no Device Tree or generic device property support, and has no users
> > in mainline (including the Nokia N810 DTS, which never added support
> > for it). Its PWM/LED handling and unbind lifetime are broken, and after
> > hardware-tested IRQ fixes in 2011 the driver has for over a decade only
> > received mechanical API conversions and static-analysis cleanups
> > without hardware testing.
> >
> > An inquiry on the mailing list asking whether anyone still uses or
> > wishes to keep the driver received no objections. Remove the driver
> > and its platform data header.
> >
> > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/Zr6I9RB5mibU_12N@google.com
> > Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
> 
> Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> 
> I made an identical patch (for both drivers combined) based on the
> same conclusion, but you beat me to posting it.
> 
> I have additional Input driver patches in the same series at
> 
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/playground.git/log/?h=board-remove-7.4
> 
> It's a mix of three types of changes:
> 
> - drivers that have been unused for years
> - drivers that become unused after I remove the board files
> - drivers that support both DT and platform_data, and I remove the latter
> 
> My plan was to post these after my board removal series is merged,
> and this got delayed until 7.5 now after some back and forth because
> I wanted to make sure they remain in the LTS kernel.
> 
> If you like, I can send more of these earlier.

Please send them to me so I can queue them: this way there's less chance
someone sends cleanup patches for them. And then they will be gone from
7.5.

Thanks.

-- 
Dmitry