Re: [PATCH] spi: remove the older/duplicated bcm53xx driver

[Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Rafal,

On Mon,  7 May 2018 11:27:03 +0200
Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> This driver was added by commit 0fc6a323e1917 ("spi: bcm53xx: driver for
> SPI controller on Broadcom bcma SoC") back in 2014. It was needed to
> provide a minimal support for SPI controller on BCM5301X (AKA Northstar)
> devices.
> 
> An alternative driver was added by Kamal in commit fa236a7ef2404 ("spi:
> bcm-qspi: Add Broadcom MSPI driver") 2 years later. It supports the same
> hardware but for some reason a new driver has been developed for it.
> 
> At this point the new driver supports: more modes, setting a speed,
> setting bits per word and uses IRQs instead of polling. DTS file for
> BCM5301X has also been updated in the commit 1c8f406507238 ("ARM: dts:
> BCM5301X: convert to iProc QSPI") - over a year ago.
> 
> That explained I see to reason to keep the old driver alive.

		       ^ no

Mark, can you apply this patch before my spi-mem patchset, so that patch
4 [1] can be dropped.

Thanks,

Boris

[1]http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/905194/
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