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

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Hi Wolfram,

On Fri, 29 Sep 2023 09:33:19 +0200, Wolfram Sang wrote:
> 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>  
> 
> Applied to for-next, thanks!

What happened to this patch? This was one year ago but I can't find it
upstream. Should I resend it?

-- 
Jean Delvare
SUSE L3 Support




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