DA9063 driver development

From: Steve Twiss
Date: Fri Sep 06 2013 - 06:54:48 EST


Hello,

I am late into the discussion about the DA9063 driver because I missed
the e-mail thread around 24th July
(https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/7/24/460)
so I only recently noticed that a DA9063 driver from Philipp Zabel
had been submitted and accepted to linux-next.

I also noted that this driver was using a previous patch-set as its baseline;
sent by Krystian Garbaciak over a year ago. Given that this original
patch-set was not accepted, and the production of the DA9063 chip has
advanced since the last submission, we were holding off the final DA9063
driver until later.

As I discussed earlier in https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/6/28/170 I was in
the process of getting this driver ready for submission to the kernel.

It is well understood that any early submission of our driver to the
community (around v3.6) meant that this sort of external driver development
could happen without any further input from Dialog. However, this driver:

- is based on something that is a year old and now out of date;
- it cannot support the most recent mass-production release of DA9063 silicon;

Is it possible to remove this driver from linux-next so these issues
can be resolved by Dialog?

Regards,
Steve Twiss

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