On 25-04-19, 03:52, Yoshihiro Shimoda wrote: > Hi Geert-san, > > > From: Geert Uytterhoeven, Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2019 9:22 PM > > > > Hi Niklas, Shimoda-san, > > > > On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 5:18 PM Niklas Söderlund > > <niklas.soderlund@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On 2019-04-11 10:49:37 +0200, Simon Horman wrote: > > > > On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 08:26:57PM +0200, Niklas Söderlund wrote: > > > > Not strictly related, but is it appropriate to: > > > > > > > > 1. Move this driver and drivers/dma/sh/usb-dmac.c to drivers/dma/renesas/ > > > > That may make sense... > > > > > > 2. Remove drivers/dma/sh/sudmac.c which appears unused > > > > > > I let someone with a better grasp of history answer this one. From my > > > side removing drivers which are unused seems like a good idea :-) > > > > There seem to be some (half-baked?) interaction between sudmac.c and > > drivers/usb/gadget/udc/r8a66597-udc.c and drivers/usb/renesas_usbhs/fifo.c. > > These don't seem to be used at all on Renesas ARM platforms, but > > CONFIG_USB_R8A66597_HCD is enabled in shmobile_defconfig and > > multi_v7_defconfig? > > > > Shimoda-san: can you please enlighten us? > > Thanks! > > Sure. > > - SH4A / sh7757 has SUDMAC. (any other Renesas ARM platforms don't have it). > # sh7757 is not public product though... > - At first, I added this SUDMAC support into r8a66597-udc. > - But, our direction is changed by some reason. So, we use renesas_usbhs driver anyway. > - The renesas_usbhs supports dmaengine, so I added dma/sh/sudmac driver. > - However, for some reasons (maybe I'm busy for other projects?), > I didn't add using the sudmac support into arch/sh/kernel/cpu/sh4a/setup-sh7757.c. > - So, no one uses both r8a66597-udc and sudmac now. > > From 2013 (added the sudmac driver) to now, since no one integrated the sudmac for sh7757, > I think we can remove the driver. And where is the removal patch :) -- ~Vinod
