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Date:   Fri, 24 Feb 2017 13:43:02 -0800
From:   Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org>
To:     Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>
Cc:     Samuel Ortiz <sameo@...ux.intel.com>,
        Lauro Ramos Venancio <lauro.venancio@...nbossa.org>,
        Aloisio Almeida Jr <aloisio.almeida@...nbossa.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-wireless <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>,
        Ilan Elias <ilane@...com>
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.
> 
> Ping. Someone going to pick up this patch?

if Samuel does not have anything pending for his tree, I can take it through bluetooth-next tree.

Regards

Marcel

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