Re: [PATCH v2 0/9] gpio: Get rid of ARCH_NR_GPIOS (v2)

[Linus Walleij]

On Wed, Sep 7, 2022 at 12:15 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> >>  drivers/gpio/gpio-sta2x11.c              | 411 -----------------------
(...)
> sta2x11 is an x86 driver, so not my area, but I think it would be
> best to kill off the entire platform rather than just its gpio
> driver, since everything needs to work together and it's clearly
> not functional at the moment.
>
> $ git grep -l STA2X11
> Documentation/admin-guide/media/pci-cardlist.rst
> arch/x86/Kconfig
> arch/x86/include/asm/sta2x11.h
> arch/x86/pci/Makefile
> arch/x86/pci/sta2x11-fixup.c
> drivers/ata/ahci.c
> drivers/gpio/Kconfig
> drivers/gpio/Makefile
> drivers/gpio/gpio-sta2x11.c
> drivers/i2c/busses/Kconfig
> drivers/media/pci/Makefile
> drivers/media/pci/sta2x11/Kconfig
> drivers/media/pci/sta2x11/Makefile
> drivers/media/pci/sta2x11/sta2x11_vip.c
> drivers/media/pci/sta2x11/sta2x11_vip.h
> drivers/mfd/Kconfig
> drivers/mfd/Makefile
> drivers/mfd/sta2x11-mfd.c
> include/linux/mfd/sta2x11-mfd.h
>
> Removing the other sta2x11 bits (mfd, media, x86) should
> probably be done through the respective tree, but it would
> be good not to forget those.

Andy is pretty much default x86 platform device maintainer, maybe
he can ACK or brief us on what he knows about the status of
STA2x11?

Yours,
Linus Walleij