linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] NFC: remove TI nfcwilink driver

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Date:   Thu, 26 Jan 2017 06:54:19 +0100
From:   Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org>
To:     Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
        Ilan Elias <ilane@...com>,
        Samuel Ortiz <sameo@...ux.intel.com>,
        Lauro Ramos Venancio <lauro.venancio@...nbossa.org>,
        Aloisio Almeida Jr <aloisio.almeida@...nbossa.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] NFC: remove TI nfcwilink driver

Hi Rob,

> It appears that TI WiLink devices including NFC (WL185x/WL189x) never
> shipped. The only information I found were announcements in Feb
> 2012 about the parts. There's been no activity on this driver besided
> common changes since initially added in Jan 2012. There's also no in
> users that instantiate the platform device (nor DT bindings).
> 
> This is a first step in removing TI ST (shared transport) driver in
> favor of extending the BT hci_ll driver to support WL183x chips.

since the firmware files TINfcInit_* also never made it into the linux-firmware tree, I have no idea who is using this driver. I am actually fine with removing it since it would be easy enough to bring back based on hci_ll driver once there is hardware to test this on.

Regards

Marcel