Re: [PATCH] slimbus: qcom: remove unused qcom controller driver
From: Srinivas Kandagatla
Date: Tue Aug 19 2025 - 09:49:25 EST
Thanks Rob for reporting this,
On 8/19/25 2:35 PM, Rob Herring wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 24, 2025 at 8:28 AM <srinivas.kandagatla@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> From: Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> Qcom Slimbus controller driver is totally unused and dead code, there is
>> no point in keeping this driver in the kernel without users.
>>
>> This patch removes the driver along with device tree bindings.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> .../bindings/slimbus/qcom,slim.yaml | 86 --
>> drivers/slimbus/Kconfig | 7 -
>> drivers/slimbus/Makefile | 3 -
>> drivers/slimbus/qcom-ctrl.c | 735 ------------------
>> 4 files changed, 831 deletions(-)
>> delete mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/slimbus/qcom,slim.yaml
>> delete mode 100644 drivers/slimbus/qcom-ctrl.c
>
> This adds warnings to dt_binding_check:
>
> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/slimbus/slimbus.example.dtb:
> /example-0/soc/slim@28080000: failed to match any schema with
> compatible: ['qcom,apq8064-slim', 'qcom,slim']
Will replace this example with slim-ngd and fold it in the original patch.
--srini
> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/slimbus/slimbus.example.dtb:
> /example-0/soc/slim@28080000: failed to match any schema with
> compatible: ['qcom,apq8064-slim', 'qcom,slim']