Re: [PATCH] NFC: remove TI nfcwilink driver

From: Rob Herring
Date: Fri Feb 24 2017 - 16:53:06 EST


On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 3:43 PM, Marcel Holtmann <marcel@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Rob,
>
>>>> It appears that TI WiLink devices including NFC (WL185x/WL189x) never
>>>> shipped. The only information I found were announcements in Feb
>>>> 2012 about the parts. There's been no activity on this driver besided
>>>> common changes since initially added in Jan 2012. There's also no in
>>>> users that instantiate the platform device (nor DT bindings).
>>>>
>>>> This is a first step in removing TI ST (shared transport) driver in
>>>> favor of extending the BT hci_ll driver to support WL183x chips.
>>>
>>> since the firmware files TINfcInit_* also never made it into the linux-firmware tree, I have no idea who is using this driver. I am actually fine with removing it since it would be easy enough to bring back based on hci_ll driver once there is hardware to test this on.
>>
>> Ping. Someone going to pick up this patch?
>
> if Samuel does not have anything pending for his tree, I can take it through bluetooth-next tree.

>From the looks of -next, it doesn't appear so.

Rob