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

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Date:   Mon, 27 Feb 2017 11:42:19 +0100
From:   Samuel Ortiz <sameo@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
        Ilan Elias <ilane@...com>,
        Marcel Holtmann <marcel.holtmann@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] NFC: remove TI nfcwilink driver

Hi Rob,

On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 04:23:07PM -0600, Rob Herring wrote:
> 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.
> 
> Cc: Ilan Elias <ilane@...com>
> Cc: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org>
> Cc: Samuel Ortiz <sameo@...ux.intel.com>
> Cc: Lauro Ramos Venancio <lauro.venancio@...nbossa.org>
> Cc: Aloisio Almeida Jr <aloisio.almeida@...nbossa.org>
> Cc: linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>
> ---
>  drivers/nfc/Kconfig     |  11 -
>  drivers/nfc/Makefile    |   1 -
>  drivers/nfc/nfcwilink.c | 578 ------------------------------------------------
>  3 files changed, 590 deletions(-)
>  delete mode 100644 drivers/nfc/nfcwilink.c
Applied to nfc-next, thanks.

Cheers,
Samuel.