Re: [PATCH] NFC: remove TI nfcwilink driver

[Samuel Ortiz]

Hi Rob,

On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 02:56:48PM -0600, Rob Herring wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 11:54 PM, Marcel Holtmann <marcel@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 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?
I'll take it, I need to catch up with pending NFC patches this week.

Cheers,
Samuel.