Hi, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> Al Cooper <alcooperx@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> > The BDC PCI driver was only used for design verification with >> > an PCI/FPGA board. The board no longer exists and is not in use >> > anywhere. All instances of this core now exist as a memory mapped >> > device on the platform bus. >> > >> > NOTE: This only removes the PCI driver and does not remove the >> > platform driver. >> > >> > Signed-off-by: Al Cooper <alcooperx@xxxxxxxxx> >> >> It sounds like it could be used for pre-silicon verification of newer >> Core Releases, much like Synopsys still uses the HAPS (with mainline >> linux, mind you) for silicon validation. >> >> Why would we delete this small shim if it *could* still be useful? > > It ends up conflicting with the PCI id of a device that is actually in > the wild (a camera on Apple laptops). So it's good to drop this driver > so the wrong driver doesn't get constantly bound to the wrong device. I see. Oh well... -- balbi
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