[PATCH 0/7] staging: vc04_services: Some dead code removal

[Dan Carpenter]

On Sat, Oct 06, 2018 at 12:18:38PM +0200, Stefan Wahren wrote:
> Hi Tuomas,
> 
> > Tuomas Tynkkynen <tuomas.tynkkynen at iki.fi> hat am 4. Oktober 2018 um 11:37 geschrieben:
> > 
> > 
> > Drop various pieces of dead code from here and there to get rid of
> > the remaining users of VCHI_CONNECTION_T. After that we get to drop
> > entire header files worth of unused code.
> > 
> > I've tested on a Raspberry Pi Model B (bcm2835_defconfig) that
> > snd-bcm2835 can still play analog audio just fine.
> > 
> 
> thanks and i'm fine with your patch series:
> 
> Acked-by: Stefan Wahren <stefan.wahren at i2se.com>
> 
> Unfortunately this would break compilation of the downstream vchi
> drivers like vcsm [1]. Personally i don't want to maintain another
> one, because i cannot see the gain of the resulting effort.
> 
> [1] - https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/tree/rpi-4.14.y/drivers/char/broadcom/vc_sm


I feel like everyone else already knows the answer but why don't we just
merge that code into staging?

regards,
dan carpenter