Re: [PATCH 47/47] staging: iio: remove iio-trig-bfin-timer driver

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Wed Mar 14 2018 - 12:32:14 EST


On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 04:36:00PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> The blackfin architecture is getting removed, so the timer trigger
> driver is now obsolete. Since this is the last remaining iio trigger
> driver in staging, I'm removing the entire directory.
>
> I'm not sure about the other staging iio drivers though: almost
> all of them are for Analog Devices devices like this one. They
> are likely used along with blackfin SoCs, but could easily be
> used on any others as well.
>
> It might be time to consider whether they should be removed, but
> it doesn't feel like a decision that I should be making.

The IIO driver maintainer/developers are talking about that currently, I
think they have a plan for those other drivers.

> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>