Re: [PATCH] leds: Delete obsolete Versatile driver

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On 05/04/2017 02:28 PM, Pavel Machek wrote:
> 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>

Applied to the for-4.13 branch of linux-leds.git, thanks.

-- 
Best regards,
Jacek Anaszewski



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