Re: [PATCH v1 3/3] mfd: tps80031: Remove driver

From: Lee Jones
Date: Fri Oct 22 2021 - 04:05:52 EST


On Thu, 21 Oct 2021, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:

> Driver was upstreamed in 2013 and never got a user, remove it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Osipenko <digetx@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/mfd/Kconfig | 14 -
> drivers/mfd/Makefile | 1 -
> drivers/mfd/tps80031.c | 526 -----------------------------
> include/linux/mfd/tps80031.h | 637 -----------------------------------
> 4 files changed, 1178 deletions(-)
> delete mode 100644 drivers/mfd/tps80031.c
> delete mode 100644 include/linux/mfd/tps80031.h

> -static const struct i2c_device_id tps80031_id_table[] = {
> - { "tps80031", TPS80031 },
> - { "tps80032", TPS80032 },
> - { }
> -};

This is an I2C driver, right?

I was under the impression that Linux could do auto-probing on I2C
devices? Such that they do not require platform code or DT in order
to bind?

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