Re: [PATCH] leds: Delete obsolete Versatile driver

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On Thu 2017-05-04 14:23:39, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 2:14 PM, Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu 2017-05-04 14:03:08, Linus Walleij wrote:
> >> All users of the Versatile LED driver are deleted and replaced
> >> with the very generic leds-syscon. Delete the old driver.
> >
> > If someone has LEDS_VERSATILE selected, he'll be unhappy if we apply
> > first.
> >
> > Are you sure no _users_ have LEDS_VERSATILE selected? Should we give
> > them some kind of warning? (#warning, printk, ...?)
> 
> Since the driver cannot probe from device tree or ACPI, the device must
> be created in a board file using the device name "versatile-leds" which is
> what the driver matches against.
> 
> For them to use it they must have out-of-tree boardfiles, and we discourage
> both out-of-tree code and boardfiles.
> 
> The last boardfiles using this were deleted in
> commit 7484c727b636a838818e71f6d03114633b25aba2
> "ARM: realview: delete the RealView board files".
> 
> All Versatile, Integrator and RealView boards (the only one using the
> versatile LEDs), have been migrated to use leds-syscon.c.

Aha, people having out-of-tree boardfiles probably know enough to
handle this.

Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx>
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