Re: [PATCH] slimbus: qcom: remove unused qcom controller driver
From: Rob Herring
Date: Tue Aug 19 2025 - 09:42:44 EST
On Thu, Jul 24, 2025 at 8:28 AM <srinivas.kandagatla@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> From: Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Qcom Slimbus controller driver is totally unused and dead code, there is
> no point in keeping this driver in the kernel without users.
>
> This patch removes the driver along with device tree bindings.
>
> Signed-off-by: Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> .../bindings/slimbus/qcom,slim.yaml | 86 --
> drivers/slimbus/Kconfig | 7 -
> drivers/slimbus/Makefile | 3 -
> drivers/slimbus/qcom-ctrl.c | 735 ------------------
> 4 files changed, 831 deletions(-)
> delete mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/slimbus/qcom,slim.yaml
> delete mode 100644 drivers/slimbus/qcom-ctrl.c
This adds warnings to dt_binding_check:
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/slimbus/slimbus.example.dtb:
/example-0/soc/slim@28080000: failed to match any schema with
compatible: ['qcom,apq8064-slim', 'qcom,slim']
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/slimbus/slimbus.example.dtb:
/example-0/soc/slim@28080000: failed to match any schema with
compatible: ['qcom,apq8064-slim', 'qcom,slim']