Re: [PATCH 16/22] spi: remove spi-sh-sci

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Fri, Jan 13, 2023 at 7:24 AM Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> wrote:
> Now that arch/sh is removed this driver is dead code.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/spi/Kconfig      |   7 --
>  drivers/spi/Makefile     |   1 -
>  drivers/spi/spi-sh-sci.c | 197 ---------------------------------------
>  3 files changed, 205 deletions(-)
>  delete mode 100644 drivers/spi/spi-sh-sci.c
>
> diff --git a/drivers/spi/Kconfig b/drivers/spi/Kconfig
> index 7508dcef909c78..76f3bc6f8c81fc 100644
> --- a/drivers/spi/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/spi/Kconfig
> @@ -882,13 +882,6 @@ config SPI_SH_MSIOF
>         help
>           SPI driver for SuperH and SH Mobile MSIOF blocks.
>
> -config SPI_SH_SCI
> -       tristate "SuperH SCI SPI controller"
> -       depends on SUPERH
> -       select SPI_BITBANG
> -       help
> -         SPI driver for SuperH SCI blocks.

This driver uses the Serial Communications Interface (SCI, cfr.
drivers/tty/serial/sh-sci.c) in SPI mode. Hence in theory it could be
used on a variety of Renesas ARM SoCs, and even on RZ/Five.
Again, no DT support.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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