Re: [PATCH] staging: axis-fifo: remove driver

[Michal Simek]

+Lucas

On 6/3/26 14:25, Grewstad wrote:
> Adding Michal Simek, as he posted some relevant points in another thread.
>
> On Wed, Jun 3, 2026 at 1:49 PM Michal Simek <michal.simek@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On 6/1/26 09:15, Grewstad wrote:
>
> > It is clear that driver in current state can't be used with axi ethernet out of
> > box because pretty much it is just about user interface for fifo via char device
> > fops. But we are talking about the same IP used in specific scenario and this
> > driver doesn't implement integration which can be used in ethernet driver.
>
> > I don't think you will find out any in-tree user because driver purpose is
> > different. It is about providing a user way via char device to push data to axi
> > streaming interface which can be consumed by user logic. It is generic way how
> > to push data there without writing specialized kernel driver for custom HW.
> > I think this is leaf driver which provide a way to axi fifo streaming interface
>
> > where stream is connected to custom HW which consumes it. I can understand that
> > this can be very useful for a lot of people who wants to process data from user
> > space via custom logic with using streaming interface.
>
> > And I don't have any issue to agree to move the driver out of staging to common
> > location.
>
> Thanks for letting me know. When you say common location, can you give your
> opinion on where it can be moved? We cannot find any user-space applications
> that use this driver, as you said it is a 'leaf driver'. Because of
> this, we do not know
> how it is used, who the end users are and hence we dont know where it
> can be moved.

We have drivers/misc/ for this purpose right?

There is attempt to move dt binding to yaml too but I can't see Lucas in this 
thread.
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260227181051.36207-1-lucas.fariamo08@xxxxxxxxx/

I was talking to our networking team and they have FIFO support on their plan 
with axi ethernet.

Just a summary I am not convinced that this driver is in a state to be removed.

Thanks,
Michal