Re: [PATCH] drivers/media/pci/sta2x11: replace legacy GPIO APIs

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Thu, Feb 20, 2025, at 14:43, Hans Verkuil wrote:
> Hi Arnd,
>
> On 12/3/24 08:52, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>> On Tue, Dec 3, 2024, at 08:48, Song Chen wrote:
>>> ok, then remove it.
>>>
>>> what about drivers/staging/media/atomisp/pci/atomisp_gmin_platform.c,
>>> it has the same problem, are you going to remove it as well?
>> 
>> No, that one is likely to stay around for a while. I think it
>> was actually removed before and brought back because there are
>> users. That one is just the on-chip component on certain Atom
>> SoCs.
>> 
>> The sta2x11 platform was never that widely used and I think might
>> have not been completely upstreamed.
>
> So I can drop this patch, and in the near future I guess we'll receive
> a patch from you removing this driver? Is that correct?

Yes, I have a patch that I am already planning to resend to
drop the sta2x11 platform on x86 along with some more arm32
and x86-32 platforms, followed by a series to remove all of
the orphaned drivers from that round and previous drivers
that got forgotten last time.

     Arnd