Re: [PATCH 4/4] HID: remove ThingM blink(1) driver

[Heiner Kallweit]

Am 22.06.2016 um 17:42 schrieb Vivien Didelot:
> Hi,
> 
> Jiri Kosina <jikos@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
>> On Tue, 21 Jun 2016, Heiner Kallweit wrote:
>>
>>> Now that support for ThingM blink(1) was merged into the hid-led driver
>>> the dedicated driver for this device can be removed.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> ---
>>>  drivers/hid/Kconfig      |  10 --
>>>  drivers/hid/Makefile     |   1 -
>>>  drivers/hid/hid-thingm.c | 259 -----------------------------------------------
>>>  3 files changed, 270 deletions(-)
>>>  delete mode 100644 drivers/hid/hid-thingm.c
>>>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/hid/Kconfig b/drivers/hid/Kconfig
>>> index ab22090..6b08a3b 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/hid/Kconfig
>>> +++ b/drivers/hid/Kconfig
>>> @@ -828,16 +828,6 @@ config HID_TOPSEED
>>>  	Say Y if you have a TopSeed Cyberlink or BTC Emprex or Conceptronic
>>>  	CLLRCMCE remote control.
>>>  
>>> -config HID_THINGM
>>
>> Overall the patchset looks good to me. I'd suggest we keep 
>> CONFIG_HID_THINGM as a stub though, that'd just select CONFIG_HID_LED, so 
>> that we don't cause kernel config regressions for users who had 
>> CONFIG_HID_THINGM already turned on.
>>
>> Also adding Vivien Didelot to CC, as the author of the original driver. 
>> Vivien, the full set can be found in linux-input archives ( 
>> http://marc.info/?l=linux-input&r=1&b=201606&w=2 )
> 
> Thanks a lot for the follow-up Jiri.
> 
> If you guys decide to remove hid-thingm.c, you need to update the
> MAINTAINERS entry, checkpatch.pl should have warned about that.
> 
Right, thanks for the hint.

> I can hardly test the patchset now. Heiner, can you confirm me that with
> your patchset, we will still see 3 led_classdev in sysfs for the
> blink(1) mk1 (which has one RGB chip) and 6 for mk2 (which has 2 chips)?
> 
Yes, this will still be the case.

Regards, Heiner

> Thanks,
> 
>         Vivien
>