I just checked with the hardware engineer that designed the BDC core. The BDC PCI driver was used with an FPGA/PCIe board for design verification and no one should be using this driver. I'll send a patch that will remove this driver. Thanks Al On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 3:57 AM Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 09:42:58AM +0100, Patrik Jakobsson wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 2:06 AM Alan Cooper <alcooperx@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > This driver was written for a PCI FPGA development board used to > > > verify the controller logic and to help with driver development before > > > adding the logic to our SoC's. I'm not sure why the driver was pushed > > > upstream but I'd like to remove it. I'm checking with a few other > > > groups to make sure I'm not missing anything. > > > > That would solve my problem. Is removing a driver acceptable for > > stable submission? > > Not really, if there are users of that driver. Why not just mark the > config to depend on BROKEN instead? > > But first we need to ensure that the users of it are really all gone. > > > If not, it would be helpful to have a patch > > suitable for stable that disables the driver before removal. I'm > > somewhat tired of explaining to people how to blacklist bdc. > > Why not submit your driver for inclusion in the kernel tree? We can > make sure it doesn't conflict when that happens. > > thanks, > > greg k-h
