Re: [PATCH] bus: fsl-mc: Remove deadcode

[Ioana Ciornei]

On Thu, Mar 13, 2025 at 02:37:56PM +0100, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> 
> 
> Le 13/03/2025 à 14:21, Dr. David Alan Gilbert a écrit :
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> > 
> > * Christophe Leroy (christophe.leroy@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Le 15/11/2024 à 16:20, linux@xxxxxxxxxxx a écrit :
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> > > > 
> > > > From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <linux@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > 
> > > > fsl_mc_allocator_driver_exit() was added explicitly by
> > > > commit 1e8ac83b6caf ("bus: fsl-mc: add fsl_mc_allocator cleanup function")
> > > > but was never used.
> > > > 
> > > > Remove it.
> > > > 
> > > > fsl_mc_portal_reset() was added in 2015 by
> > > > commit 197f4d6a4a00 ("staging: fsl-mc: fsl-mc object allocator driver")
> > > > but was never used.
> > > > 
> > > > Remove it.
> > > > 
> > > > fsl_mc_portal_reset() was the only caller of dpmcp_reset().
> > > > 
> > > > Remove it.
> > > > 
> > > > Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <linux@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > 
> > > Acked-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > Hi,
> >    Can someone pick this old change up please?  I see the PPC patchwork says
> >    'handled elsewhere' but doesn't say where.
> 
> MAINTAINERS file says where:
> 
> QORIQ DPAA2 FSL-MC BUS DRIVER
> M:	Stuart Yoder <stuyoder@xxxxxxxxx>
> M:	Laurentiu Tudor <laurentiu.tudor@xxxxxxx>
> L:	linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> S:	Maintained
> F:	Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-bus-fsl-mc
> F:	Documentation/devicetree/bindings/misc/fsl,qoriq-mc.txt
> F:
> Documentation/networking/device_drivers/ethernet/freescale/dpaa2/overview.rst
> F:	drivers/bus/fsl-mc/
> F:	include/uapi/linux/fsl_mc.h
> 
> FREESCALE SOC DRIVERS
> M:	Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@xxxxxxxxxx>
> L:	linuxppc-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> L:	linux-arm-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (moderated for non-subscribers)
> S:	Maintained
> F:	Documentation/devicetree/bindings/misc/fsl,dpaa2-console.yaml
> F:	Documentation/devicetree/bindings/soc/fsl/
> F:	drivers/soc/fsl/
> F:	include/linux/fsl/
> F:	include/soc/fsl/
> 
> I acked the 2 line changes in include/linux/fsl/mc.h, the main changes being
> in the C files which are not under my scope.
> 
> Stuart, Laurentiu, can you pick up the patch ?

Stuart and Laurentiu are no longer at NXP. Even when they handled the
fsl-mc bus driver, they didn't have a tree themselves to pick patches up
but rather, historically, patches on the fsl-mc bus were picked by Greg
KH.

Ioana