linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1 3/3] mfd: tps80031: Remove driver

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Message-ID: <YXJw2fX42REHylOy@google.com>
Date:   Fri, 22 Oct 2021 09:05:45 +0100
From:   Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>
To:     Dmitry Osipenko <digetx@...il.com>, Wolfram Sang <wsa@...nel.org>
Cc:     Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@...il.com>,
        Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>,
        Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@...ertech.it>,
        Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@...tlin.com>,
        Laxman Dewangan <ldewangan@...dia.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-rtc@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-i2c@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 3/3] mfd: tps80031: Remove driver

On Thu, 21 Oct 2021, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:

> Driver was upstreamed in 2013 and never got a user, remove it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Osipenko <digetx@...il.com>
> ---
>  drivers/mfd/Kconfig          |  14 -
>  drivers/mfd/Makefile         |   1 -
>  drivers/mfd/tps80031.c       | 526 -----------------------------
>  include/linux/mfd/tps80031.h | 637 -----------------------------------
>  4 files changed, 1178 deletions(-)
>  delete mode 100644 drivers/mfd/tps80031.c
>  delete mode 100644 include/linux/mfd/tps80031.h

> -static const struct i2c_device_id tps80031_id_table[] = {
> -	{ "tps80031", TPS80031 },
> -	{ "tps80032", TPS80032 },
> -	{ }
> -};

This is an I2C driver, right?

I was under the impression that Linux could do auto-probing on I2C
devices?  Such that they do not require platform code or DT in order
to bind?

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