Re: [PATCH] staging: greybus: remove timesync protocol support

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On Thu, Jan 05, 2017 at 06:39:12PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> While the timesync protocol was a great idea, it never ended up getting
> implemented by any known hardware devices.  It's also a bit
> "interesting" in how it ties into the platform controller.
> 
> So, just remove it for now.  It's not needed, no one uses it, and it's a
> stumbling block in getting the greybus core code merged out of the
> staging tree.  If anyone wants it in the future, reverting this patch is
> a great place to start from.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx>

> Note, there are some remants in the arche-platform driver, but that's
> probably next on the chopping block, so I didn't unwind it from there as
> it's a bit more complex, and it never gets built so no one will see
> it...

There are also some protocol op-code and USB vendor requests that should
be removed (and marked reserved), but that can be done in a follow-on as
well.

Thanks,
Johan
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