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[v1,0/4] lm3533: Remove the outdated drivers

Message ID 20240531170844.1595468-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com
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Series lm3533: Remove the outdated drivers | expand

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Andy Shevchenko May 31, 2024, 4:56 p.m. UTC 
Driver is quite outdated from the Linux kernel internal APIs
perspective. In particular GPIO code is using legacy calls,
that started being replaced by a new API ca. 2014, i.e. ten
years ago.

Suggested-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>

Andy Shevchenko (4):
  backlight: lm3533_bl: Remove the driver
  iio: light: lm3533-als: Remove the driver
  leds: lm3533: Remove the driver
  mfd: lm3533: Remove the driver

 drivers/iio/light/Kconfig           |  17 -
 drivers/iio/light/Makefile          |   1 -
 drivers/iio/light/lm3533-als.c      | 922 ----------------------------
 drivers/leds/Kconfig                |  13 -
 drivers/leds/Makefile               |   1 -
 drivers/leds/leds-lm3533.c          | 755 -----------------------
 drivers/mfd/lm3533-core.c           | 645 -------------------
 drivers/video/backlight/Kconfig     |  11 -
 drivers/video/backlight/Makefile    |   1 -
 drivers/video/backlight/lm3533_bl.c | 399 ------------
 include/linux/mfd/lm3533.h          | 100 ---
 11 files changed, 2865 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 drivers/iio/light/lm3533-als.c
 delete mode 100644 drivers/leds/leds-lm3533.c
 delete mode 100644 drivers/mfd/lm3533-core.c
 delete mode 100644 drivers/video/backlight/lm3533_bl.c
 delete mode 100644 include/linux/mfd/lm3533.h

Comments

Johan Hovold June 5, 2024, 12:42 p.m. UTC | #1 
On Fri, May 31, 2024 at 08:17:34PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> +Cc: Johan (via kernel.org)
> 
> On Fri, May 31, 2024 at 08:14:43PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Fri, May 31, 2024 at 07:56:12PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > > Driver is quite outdated from the Linux kernel internal APIs
> > > perspective. In particular GPIO code is using legacy calls,
> > > that started being replaced by a new API ca. 2014, i.e. ten
> > > years ago.
> > > 
> > > Suggested-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
> > 
> > >  drivers/mfd/lm3533-core.c           | 645 -------------------
> > 
> > Oops, still leftovers: one file and Kconfig/Makefile updates...
> > If needed I'll send a v2, but now I leave it to Lee and Johan to decide
> > the destiny of the drivers.

I prefer to keep them as I just mentioned here:

	https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/ZmBcvtLCzllQDWVX@hovoldconsulting.com/

Johan