Re: [PATCH] slimbus: qcom: remove unused qcom controller driver

[Rob Herring]

On Fri, Sep 5, 2025 at 12:30 AM Srinivas Kandagatla <srini@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On 9/5/25 12:08 AM, Rob Herring wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 19, 2025 at 8:44 AM Srinivas Kandagatla
> > <srinivas.kandagatla@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> 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.
> >
> > Still warning in linux-next...
> Its done now!

Now I get this:

Documentation/devicetree/bindings/slimbus/slimbus.example.dtb:
slim@28080000 (qcom,slim-ngd-v1.5.0): 'audio-codec@1,0' does not match
any of the regexes: '^pinctrl-[0-9]+$', '^slim@[0-9a-f]+$'
        from schema $id:
http://devicetree.org/schemas/slimbus/qcom,slim-ngd.yaml#
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/slimbus/slimbus.example.dtb:
slim@28080000 (qcom,slim-ngd-v1.5.0): #address-cells: 1 was expected
        from schema $id:
http://devicetree.org/schemas/slimbus/qcom,slim-ngd.yaml#
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/slimbus/slimbus.example.dtb:
slim@28080000 (qcom,slim-ngd-v1.5.0): 'dmas' is a required property
        from schema $id:
http://devicetree.org/schemas/slimbus/qcom,slim-ngd.yaml#
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/slimbus/slimbus.example.dtb:
slim@28080000 (qcom,slim-ngd-v1.5.0): 'dma-names' is a required
property
        from schema $id:
http://devicetree.org/schemas/slimbus/qcom,slim-ngd.yaml#