Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 28 Jun 2019 14:37:38 +0200 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] extcon: Add fsa9480 extcon driver |
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On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 11:28:11AM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote: > On Fri, Jun 21, 2019 at 12:14 PM Paweł Chmiel > <pawel.mikolaj.chmiel@gmail.com> wrote: > > > This small patchset adds support for Fairchild Semiconductor FSA9480 > > microUSB switch. > > > > It has been tested on Samsung Galaxy S and Samsung Fascinate 4G, > > but it can be found also on other Samsung Aries (s5pv210) based devices. > > > > Tomasz Figa (2): > > dt-bindings: extcon: Add support for fsa9480 switch > > extcon: Add fsa9480 extcon driver > > This is surely an important driver since almost all elder Samsung > mobiles use this kind of switch. So > Acked-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> > > This driver I see is already sent to Greg for inclusion in the next kernel. > I just wonder if you guys are even aware of this driver for the same > hardware added by Donggeun Kim in 2011: > drivers/misc/fsa9480.c > > That said I am all for pulling in this new driver because it is surely > better and supports device tree. > > But can we please also send Greg a patch to delete the old driver > so we don't have two of them now? > > The old driver have no in-tree users so it can be deleted without > side effects. Out-of-tree users can certainly adapt to the new > extcon driver. > > If you want I can send a deletion patch for the misc driver?
Please, I'll gladly take a patch that deletes code :)
thanks,
greg k-h
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