Re: [PATCH] greybus: audio: remove unused code

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 01:07:36AM +0530, Vaibhav Agarwal wrote:
> On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 11:15 PM Mark Greer <mgreer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, May 07, 2020 at 11:29:11PM +0200, Alexandre Belloni wrote:
> > > GREYBUS_AUDIO_MSM8994 is not an existing configuration option and as
> > > reported in September 2016, it depends on an "out-of-tree qualcomm audio
> > > driver". This driver never made it upstream.
> > >
> > > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20160921073905.GA31263@xxxxxxxxx/
> > >
> > > Moreover, there doesn't seem to be any interest in actually fixing the
> > > driver as it uses ASoC APIs that have been removed from the kernel in 2018
> > > as shown by its use of snd_soc_register_codec and
> > > snd_soc_codec_get_drvdata, removed in commit 999f7f5af8eb ("ASoC: remove
> > > Codec related code").
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> Hi Alexandre,
> 
> As mentioned in the mail archive referred, the GB Codec driver that is
> currently available in kernel tree is dependent on qualcomm audio
> driver. And some time later I made some minor modifications to remove
> the unnecessary dependencies. However, I missed to share the same with
> the community :(
> 
> Thanks to you for triggering the thread. Now, I could retrieve my local
> changes and I have been in the process of updating it again to make it
> compatible with latest kernel.
> 
> I'm planning to share the same here in the next few days.  I'll mark you
> in CC to seek your review comments as well.

I'll give you a few more days for that patch to be sent before I apply
this one...

thanks,

greg k-h