Re: i2c: removal of s6000 driver

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Hi Wolfram,

On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 13:30:29 +0200, Wolfram Sang wrote:
> I recently discovered that the I2C core of the S6000 is basically a
> Designware IP core. For the latter we have a frequently used and updated
> i2c driver while the S6000 driver seems to bitrot. My wish is to remove
> the s6000 driver in favor of the DesignWare one. My question is if there
> is someone who could test such a change on real hardware?
> Grepping through sources, it looks to me like the only candidate in
> mainline is the s6105, yet its defconfig doesn't even have I2C
> activated? Can we remove this driver right away? Am I missing something?

Removing drivers without a replacement tested and running
doesn't make much sense, except one chooses to drop support
for the whole S6 thing right away. Which I don't support.

best regards,
  Oskar
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