On Wed, Dec 22, 2021 at 10:54:41AM +0100, Lukas Bulwahn wrote: > Dear Vaibhav, dear Johan, dear Alex, dear Greg, > > I have seen that the greybus arche driver has been under heavy > development in 2016 and 2017 with some further clean-up in 2019. > > However, so far, the config GREYBUS_ARCHE for this driver still > depends on the out-of-tree config USB_HSIC_USB3613, with a proper > exception made for compile testing (with COMPILE_TEST). > > Will this USB_HSIC_USB3613 config and driver still be added in the > mainline kernel in the near future, so that the config dependencies > are consistent in mainline? Do you have this hardware? If so, we can add the driver, but given that I did not think the chip ever actually shipped, it didn't make much sense. > Or, are the further out-of-tree additions still maintained for the > current kernel and will stay out of tree? Is this arche driver not > needed anymore and can be dropped? Do you want to drop it as it is causing problems for you? It's a good example driver for those wanting to create a greybus host controller driver so it's nice to have in the tree, unless you have a different one that should be merged instead? thanks, greg k-h
