linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] sound: usb: remove Wireless USB dead code

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Message-ID: <87ilf3b9uc.wl-tiwai@suse.de>
Date:   Tue, 14 Mar 2023 17:01:47 +0100
From:   Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
To:     Ruslan Bilovol <ruslan.bilovol@...il.com>
Cc:     perex@...ex.cz, tiwai@...e.com, alsa-devel@...a-project.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sound: usb: remove Wireless USB dead code

On Sun, 12 Mar 2023 23:28:57 +0100,
Ruslan Bilovol wrote:
> 
> Wireless USB host controller support has been removed
> from Linux Kernel more than 3 years ago in commit
> caa6772db4c1 ("Staging: remove wusbcore and UWB from the
> kernel tree."), and the associated code in the
> snd-usb-audio driver became unused and untested.
> 
> If in the future somebody will return WUSB/UWB support
> back to the kernel, the snd-usb-audio driver will reject
> Wireless USB audio devices at probe stage, and this patch
> should be reverted.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ruslan Bilovol <ruslan.bilovol@...il.com>

Thanks, applied now to for-next branch.


Takashi