Re: [PATCH 09/13] arm: milbeaut: remove select of non-existing PINCTRL_MILBEAUT

[Sugaya Taichi]

On 2021/10/28 23:55, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 28, 2021 at 4:19 PM Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > The patch series "Add basic support for Socionext Milbeaut M10V SoC" (see
> > Link) introduced the config ARCH_MILBEAUT_M10V "Milbeaut SC2000/M10V
> > platform" in ./arch/arm/mach-milbeaut/ and intended to introduce timer,
> > clock, pinctrl and serial controller drivers.
> >
> > However, during patch submission in March 2019, the introduction of the
> > milbeaut pinctrl driver was dropped from v2 to v3 of the patch series.
> > Since then, there was no further patch series to add this pinctrl driver
> > later on.
> >
> > Hence, selecting PINCTRL_MILBEAUT in config is simply dangling and
> > referring to a non-existing config symbols.
> > Fortunately, ./scripts/checkkconfigsymbols.py warns:
> >
> > PINCTRL_MILBEAUT
> > Referencing files: arch/arm/mach-milbeaut/Kconfig
> >
> > Remove this select of the non-existing PINCTRL_MILBEAUT for now.
> >
> > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/1551243056-10521-1-git-send-email-sugaya.taichi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> I would take that as an indication that there is no interest in supporting this
> platform upstream any more, the version we merged probably never worked
> without the rest of the drivers.
>
> I've added the original authors of the other drivers to Cc. Should we remove
> all of this?
>
>          Arnd

It is okay to drop PINCTRL_MILBEAUT. I will add it again when working at the pinctrl
driver. But don`t remove the milbeaut platform. Actually we haven't been doing
maintenance recently, but we have plans to add drivers in the future.

Thanks,
Taichi Sugaya