Re: [PATCH] NFC: remove TI nfcwilink driver

From: Marcel Holtmann
Date: Fri Feb 24 2017 - 16:52:07 EST


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.

Regards

Marcel