Re: [PATCH] ASoC: fsl: remove Efika audio fabric driver

[Mark Brown]

On Tue, Jun 09, 2026 at 05:29:10PM -0700, Rosen Penev wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 9, 2026 at 4:26 PM Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > On Tue, Jun 09, 2026 at 02:52:12PM -0700, Rosen Penev wrote:
> > > The Efika 5K2 is an OpenFirmware-based PowerPC board from ~2006.
> > > The platform code (PPC_EFIKA) and its sound driver have no in-tree
> > > DTB references and the hardware is long obsolete. Remove the driver.

> > Is this solving an actual problem, and was the DT ever distributed with
> > the kernel?

> No and I don't think so.

> The only reason for the removal is that everything else old seems to
> be getting removed.

OK, in that case I'd rather keep it unless it's causing trouble or
obviously can't be used (eg, due to dependencies being removed).  It's
hard to tell what some out of tree users are using, and some things have
a very long lifetime since they fit a good niche - it's only quite
recently that wm8731 went out of production for example.

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