On Thu, May 5, 2022 at 8:20 AM Hennerich, Michael
<Michael.Hennerich@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > The last user is gone since 2018 (commit 4ba66a976072 ("arch: remove
> > blackfin port")). This is an i2c driver, so it could be used on a non-blackfin
> > machine, but this driver requires platform data, so it cannot be bound using
> > device tree.
>
> Hi Uwe,
>
> If we start removing drivers which obviously don't have a mainline in-tree user,
> we would upset up many users of these drivers.
> I agree on updating this driver to make platform data optional.
> We could provide a patch in a few days.
>
> Thoughts?
I think the absence of both a DT binding and platforms that define the
platform_data
is a good indication that there are exactly zero users, I wouldn't
worry about that
unless you know of specific users.
If it turns out that there are users on non-blackfin machines that still run on
modern kernels, you should work with them to make a proper DT binding and
drop the platform_data side of the driver.
Arnd
