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Message-ID: <20201028055429.GA244117@kroah.com>
Date:   Wed, 28 Oct 2020 06:54:29 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Sudeep Dutt <sudeep.dutt@...el.com>
Cc:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        dmaengine@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Vinod Koul <vkoul@...nel.org>, Sherry Sun <sherry.sun@....com>,
        Ashutosh Dixit <ashutosh.dixit@...el.com>,
        Nikhil Rao <nikhil.rao@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH char-misc-next 1/1] misc: mic: remove the MIC drivers

On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 08:14:15PM -0700, Sudeep Dutt wrote:
> This patch removes the MIC drivers from the kernel tree
> since the corresponding devices have been discontinued.

Does "discontinued" mean "never shipped a device so no one has access to
this hardware anymore", or does it mean "we stopped shipping devices and
there are customers with this?"

> Removing the dma and char-misc changes in one patch and
> merging via the char-misc tree is best to avoid any
> potential build breakage.
> 
> Cc: Nikhil Rao <nikhil.rao@...el.com>
> Reviewed-by: Ashutosh Dixit <ashutosh.dixit@...el.com>
> Signed-off-by: Sudeep Dutt <sudeep.dutt@...el.com>

I like deleting code, can this go into 5.10-final?

thanks,

greg k-h

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