Re: nwbutton: lost wakeup in button_read() -- worth fixing, or is this driver done?

From: old king

Date: Sat Aug 22 2026 - 20:12:43 EST


Thanks for the clarification.
Understood -- I'll leave the driver as-is.

FAN YE

On Sun, Aug 23, 2026 at 2:59 AM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Aug 22, 2026, at 18:08, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Sat, Aug 22, 2026 at 06:06:13PM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> >
> > I don't think it can even build, given that there is no definition for
> > machine_is_netwinder() anywhere in the tree that I can see. So maybe
> > many of these drivers can just be removed now. Arnd, any ideas?
>
> The machine_is_netwinder() function is autogenerated from
> arch/arm/tools/mach-types, I would assume that the driver
> still works as well as it ever has.
>
> However, I have marked most arm32 board files including
> this one as deprecated this merge window, and expect that
> we can remove the platform and all associated drivers
> for 7.4 or 7.5.
>
> Please keep the driver for now, until we are sure the
> platform removal goes ahead. I have already written
> a patch to remove it, and plan to send it once the platform
> removal is queued in the soc tree. I'll also take
> care of nwflash, ds1620, mxc-rnga, and bh1770glc.
>
> No need to fix any bugs in the driver though.
>
> Arnd