On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 11:56:00AM -0500, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 02:43:13PM +0100, Lorenzo Pieralisi wrote: > > Subrahmanya, > > > > I put together this series so that the Mobiveil controller driver > > can compile (successfully). Please review and ack as soon as possible > > since the current situation is a bit embarassing to be honest, we > > should be sending these patches as fixes this week so that they > > can make it for v4.18, currently the driver is in the kernel for > > nothing. > > There doesn't seem to be much interest in the Mobiveil driver (the > last patch I see was on May 10), and as you say, it's not even in the > Makefile, so it has gotten zero testing or even building. > > Should we just drop the driver and see if anybody wants to try again > next cycle? I'm a little hesitant about flipping the switch to enable > a brand-new driver this late in the cycle. I totally share your concern - I do not know what's the best way to drop it but I think that reverting it is sensible given what this series has to do to enable it in the first place. Thanks, Lorenzo
