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From: m.szyprowski@samsung•com (Marek Szyprowski)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] iommu/exynos: Remove driver
Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2014 14:49:53 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <52F4E481.3050902@samsung.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAH9JG2Xoz1_Y7CV6FUiGAO9o5T7jtFUYqJpcAysLttwu4527zQ@mail.gmail.com>

Hello,

On 2014-02-07 13:44, Kyungmin Park wrote:
>
> On Friday, February 7, 2014, Inki Dae <inki.dae@samsung•com 
> <mailto:inki.dae@samsung•com>> wrote:
>
>     2014-02-07 Olof Johansson <olof@lixom•net <javascript:;>>:
>     > The driver has been unbuildable due to unfulfilled dependencies
>     since
>     > 3.11, and even if enabled it won't build due to build breakage.
>     Emails
>     > about status on this have gone unanswered, and fixes seem to
>     have been
>     > abandoned.
>     >
>     > It's obvious that nobody cares about it, so let's remove it.
>
>     Wait, we are going to fix up this module. It seems that KyoungHo,
>     original author, is busy with some works related to product.
>
>     we can care about it if KyoungHo cannot afford to care for the
>     time being.
>
> Any volunteers?
> Marek or Bartek, how do you think?
>
> Before that it makes orphan or unsupported at maintainer file first and
> change it to new volunteers.

I think that it might be easier to remove the existing non-functional driver
now and add it again once the driver is ready. I have it on my TODO 
list, but
doubt I will manage to finish it for v3.15.

Discussing the DT bindings might take some time.

Best regards
-- 
Marek Szyprowski, PhD
Samsung R&D Institute Poland

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-02-07 13:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-06 19:51 [PATCH] iommu/exynos: Remove driver Olof Johansson
2014-02-07  4:26 ` Inki Dae
     [not found]   ` <CAH9JG2Xoz1_Y7CV6FUiGAO9o5T7jtFUYqJpcAysLttwu4527zQ@mail.gmail.com>
2014-02-07 13:49     ` Marek Szyprowski [this message]
     [not found]       ` <CAL5jtJmfwajFD0cnYt6gOfFsZ5hGbFi=5kv8g4x23fY6qGBOew@mail.gmail.com>
2014-02-13 19:33         ` Olof Johansson
2014-02-14  0:17           ` Cho KyongHo
2014-03-05 23:48             ` Kyungmin Park
2014-03-09 13:54               ` KyongHo Cho
2014-03-09 23:48                 ` Tomasz Figa

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