linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] usb: phy: mv_u3d: Remove usb phy driver for mv

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Date:	Tue, 15 Apr 2014 12:23:10 -0500
From:	Felipe Balbi <balbi@...com>
To:	Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>
CC:	Felipe Balbi <balbi@...com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] usb: phy: mv_u3d: Remove usb phy driver for mv_u3d

On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 01:36:23PM +0200, Paul Bolle wrote:
> The usb phy driver for mv_u3d got added in v3.7 through commit
> a67e76ac904c ("usb: phy: mv_u3d: Add usb phy driver for mv_u3d"). It
> then depended on USB_MV_U3D. And that symbol depended
> on CPU_MMP3 at that time. But CPU_MMP3 has never been part of the tree.
> This means that this drive was unbuildable when it was added.
> 
> In commit 60630c2eabd4 ("usb: gadget: mv_u3d: drop ARCH dependency")
> MV_U3D_PHY was made depended directly on CPU_MMP3. That kept it
> unbuildable, of course.
> 
> Remove this driver. It can be re-added once its dependencies are part of
> the tree.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>
> ---
> Tested with git grep.
> 
> This was triggered by Richard's "[PATCH 01/28] Remove CPU_MMP3" of two
> months ago, which I acked to eagerly. See
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/2/11/714 for the details.

so this means that drivers/usb/gadget/mv_u3d_core.c isn't used either ?
Instead of deleting this and introducing a new driver, why don't you
just help fix what's already in-tree ?

-- 
balbi

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