On Wed, 2020-10-28 at 06:54 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 08:14:15PM -0700, Sudeep Dutt wrote: > > This patch removes the MIC drivers from the kernel tree > > since the corresponding devices have been discontinued. > > Does "discontinued" mean "never shipped a device so no one has access > to > this hardware anymore", or does it mean "we stopped shipping devices > and > there are customers with this?" Hi Greg, We are not aware of any customers of the upstreamed MIC drivers. The drivers were upstreamed primarily to lay a foundation for enabling the next generation MIC devices which did not ship. > > Removing the dma and char-misc changes in one patch and > > merging via the char-misc tree is best to avoid any > > potential build breakage. > > > > Cc: Nikhil Rao <nikhil.rao@xxxxxxxxx> > > Reviewed-by: Ashutosh Dixit <ashutosh.dixit@xxxxxxxxx> > > Signed-off-by: Sudeep Dutt <sudeep.dutt@xxxxxxxxx> > > I like deleting code, can this go into 5.10-final? Yes, we would prefer this goes into v5.10. I am hoping you can carry the Ack from Vinod and the Reviewed-by from Sherry but I can resend the patch with those updates in the commit message if required. I did verify that this patch passes allmodconfig and allyesconfig builds with your latest char-misc-next tree. Many thanks for your help with this subsystem Greg. Best Regards, Sudeep Dutt
