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

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Date:   Fri, 24 Feb 2017 14:56:48 -0600
From:   Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>
To:     Samuel Ortiz <sameo@...ux.intel.com>,
        Lauro Ramos Venancio <lauro.venancio@...nbossa.org>,
        Aloisio Almeida Jr <aloisio.almeida@...nbossa.org>
Cc:     "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-wireless <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>,
        Ilan Elias <ilane@...com>,
        Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] NFC: remove TI nfcwilink driver

On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 11:54 PM, Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org> wrote:
> 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.

Ping. Someone going to pick up this patch?

Rob