[PATCH 1/2] gpio: Drop long unused DB8500 GPIO driver

Linus Walleij linus.walleij at linaro.org
Fri Jul 2 18:33:36 CEST 2021


On Fri, Jul 2, 2021 at 5:06 PM Stephan Gerhold <stephan at gerhold.net> wrote:

> The original U-Boot port for the ST-Ericsson U8500 SoC was dropped
> in commit 68282f55b846 ("arm: Remove unused ST-Ericsson u8500 arch").
> Most of the drivers related to the old port were removed, but the
> db8500_gpio.c driver was forgotten for some reason. There is no way
> to select it and it does not compile anymore because of missing
> headers, so let's just remove it.
>
> The new port for U8500 introduced in commit 689088f9dae8
> ("arm: Add support for ST-Ericsson U8500 SoC") fully embraces the
> new Driver Model and device trees where possible, so this is
> preparation to add a new, simplified GPIO driver based on DM_GPIO.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stephan Gerhold <stephan at gerhold.net>

Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at linaro.org>

Yours,
Linus Walleij


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