Re: [PATCH v2] i2c: Drop legacy muxing pseudo-drivers

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Hi Jean,

On Thu, Sep 28, 2023 at 10:16:55AM +0200, Jean Delvare wrote:
> The i2c-amd756-s4882 and i2c-nforce2-s4985 muxing pseudo-drivers were
> written at a time when the i2c core did not support muxing. They are
> essentially board-specific hacks. If we had to add support for these
> boards today, we would implement it in a completely different way.
> 
> These Tyan server boards are 18 years old by now, so I very much doubt
> any of these is still running today. So let's just drop this clumsy
> code. If anyone really still needs this support and complains, I'll
> rewrite it in a proper way on top of i2c-mux.
> 
> This also fixes the following warnings:
> drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-amd756.c:286:20: warning: symbol 'amd756_smbus' was not declared. Should it be static?
> drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-nforce2.c:123:20: warning: symbol 'nforce2_smbus' was not declared. Should it be static?
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@xxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Andi Shyti <andi.shyti@xxxxxxxxxx>

I think I commented here that I had double thoughts on this. I
said that on one hand I like the cleanup, but on the other what's
wrong keeping them here?

Maybe someone is still using these devices.

BTW, do you really have them?

Andi



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