Re: [PATCH 4/4] HID: remove ThingM blink(1) driver

From: Heiner Kallweit
Date: Wed Jun 22 2016 - 15:54:39 EST


Am 22.06.2016 um 17:42 schrieb Vivien Didelot:
> Hi,
>
> Jiri Kosina <jikos@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> On Tue, 21 Jun 2016, Heiner Kallweit wrote:
>>
>>> Now that support for ThingM blink(1) was merged into the hid-led driver
>>> the dedicated driver for this device can be removed.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> ---
>>> drivers/hid/Kconfig | 10 --
>>> drivers/hid/Makefile | 1 -
>>> drivers/hid/hid-thingm.c | 259 -----------------------------------------------
>>> 3 files changed, 270 deletions(-)
>>> delete mode 100644 drivers/hid/hid-thingm.c
>>>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/hid/Kconfig b/drivers/hid/Kconfig
>>> index ab22090..6b08a3b 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/hid/Kconfig
>>> +++ b/drivers/hid/Kconfig
>>> @@ -828,16 +828,6 @@ config HID_TOPSEED
>>> Say Y if you have a TopSeed Cyberlink or BTC Emprex or Conceptronic
>>> CLLRCMCE remote control.
>>>
>>> -config HID_THINGM
>>
>> Overall the patchset looks good to me. I'd suggest we keep
>> CONFIG_HID_THINGM as a stub though, that'd just select CONFIG_HID_LED, so
>> that we don't cause kernel config regressions for users who had
>> CONFIG_HID_THINGM already turned on.
>>
>> Also adding Vivien Didelot to CC, as the author of the original driver.
>> Vivien, the full set can be found in linux-input archives (
>> http://marc.info/?l=linux-input&r=1&b=201606&w=2 )
>
> Thanks a lot for the follow-up Jiri.
>
> If you guys decide to remove hid-thingm.c, you need to update the
> MAINTAINERS entry, checkpatch.pl should have warned about that.
>
Right, thanks for the hint.

> I can hardly test the patchset now. Heiner, can you confirm me that with
> your patchset, we will still see 3 led_classdev in sysfs for the
> blink(1) mk1 (which has one RGB chip) and 6 for mk2 (which has 2 chips)?
>
Yes, this will still be the case.

Regards, Heiner

> Thanks,
>
> Vivien
>