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| Started by | Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> |
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| First post | 2017-02-24 22:00 +0100 |
| Last post | 2017-02-27 11:40 +0100 |
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Re: [PATCH] NFC: remove TI nfcwilink driver Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> - 2017-02-24 22:00 +0100
Re: [PATCH] NFC: remove TI nfcwilink driver Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org> - 2017-02-24 23:00 +0100
Re: [PATCH] NFC: remove TI nfcwilink driver Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> - 2017-02-24 23:00 +0100
Re: [PATCH] NFC: remove TI nfcwilink driver Samuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com> - 2017-02-27 11:40 +0100
| From | Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> |
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| Date | 2017-02-24 22:00 +0100 |
| Subject | Re: [PATCH] NFC: remove TI nfcwilink driver |
| Message-ID | <tev85-5AX-1@gated-at.bofh.it> |
On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 11:54 PM, Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org> wrote: > Hi Rob, > >> It appears that TI WiLink devices including NFC (WL185x/WL189x) never >> shipped. The only information I found were announcements in Feb >> 2012 about the parts. There's been no activity on this driver besided >> common changes since initially added in Jan 2012. There's also no in >> users that instantiate the platform device (nor DT bindings). >> >> This is a first step in removing TI ST (shared transport) driver in >> favor of extending the BT hci_ll driver to support WL183x chips. > > since the firmware files TINfcInit_* also never made it into the linux-firmware tree, I have no idea who is using this driver. I am actually fine with removing it since it would be easy enough to bring back based on hci_ll driver once there is hardware to test this on. Ping. Someone going to pick up this patch? Rob
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| From | Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org> |
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| Date | 2017-02-24 23:00 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <tew49-6gV-9@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| In reply to | #1587933 |
Hi Rob, >>> It appears that TI WiLink devices including NFC (WL185x/WL189x) never >>> shipped. The only information I found were announcements in Feb >>> 2012 about the parts. There's been no activity on this driver besided >>> common changes since initially added in Jan 2012. There's also no in >>> users that instantiate the platform device (nor DT bindings). >>> >>> This is a first step in removing TI ST (shared transport) driver in >>> favor of extending the BT hci_ll driver to support WL183x chips. >> >> since the firmware files TINfcInit_* also never made it into the linux-firmware tree, I have no idea who is using this driver. I am actually fine with removing it since it would be easy enough to bring back based on hci_ll driver once there is hardware to test this on. > > Ping. Someone going to pick up this patch? if Samuel does not have anything pending for his tree, I can take it through bluetooth-next tree. Regards Marcel
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| From | Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> |
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| Date | 2017-02-24 23:00 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <tew4a-6gV-13@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| In reply to | #1587965 |
On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 3:43 PM, Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org> wrote: > Hi Rob, > >>>> It appears that TI WiLink devices including NFC (WL185x/WL189x) never >>>> shipped. The only information I found were announcements in Feb >>>> 2012 about the parts. There's been no activity on this driver besided >>>> common changes since initially added in Jan 2012. There's also no in >>>> users that instantiate the platform device (nor DT bindings). >>>> >>>> This is a first step in removing TI ST (shared transport) driver in >>>> favor of extending the BT hci_ll driver to support WL183x chips. >>> >>> since the firmware files TINfcInit_* also never made it into the linux-firmware tree, I have no idea who is using this driver. I am actually fine with removing it since it would be easy enough to bring back based on hci_ll driver once there is hardware to test this on. >> >> Ping. Someone going to pick up this patch? > > if Samuel does not have anything pending for his tree, I can take it through bluetooth-next tree. From the looks of -next, it doesn't appear so. Rob
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| From | Samuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com> |
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| Date | 2017-02-27 11:40 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <tfqSK-4fZ-17@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| In reply to | #1587933 |
Hi Rob, On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 02:56:48PM -0600, Rob Herring wrote: > On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 11:54 PM, Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org> wrote: > > Hi Rob, > > > >> It appears that TI WiLink devices including NFC (WL185x/WL189x) never > >> shipped. The only information I found were announcements in Feb > >> 2012 about the parts. There's been no activity on this driver besided > >> common changes since initially added in Jan 2012. There's also no in > >> users that instantiate the platform device (nor DT bindings). > >> > >> This is a first step in removing TI ST (shared transport) driver in > >> favor of extending the BT hci_ll driver to support WL183x chips. > > > > since the firmware files TINfcInit_* also never made it into the linux-firmware tree, I have no idea who is using this driver. I am actually fine with removing it since it would be easy enough to bring back based on hci_ll driver once there is hardware to test this on. > > Ping. Someone going to pick up this patch? I'll take it, I need to catch up with pending NFC patches this week. Cheers, Samuel.
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