Re: [PATCH] slimbus: qcom: remove unused qcom controller driver

[Luca Weiss]

Hi all,

On Thu Jul 24, 2025 at 4:24 PM CEST, Dmitry Baryshkov wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 24, 2025 at 03:31:50PM +0200, Konrad Dybcio wrote:
>> On 7/24/25 3:28 PM, srinivas.kandagatla@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> > From: Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> > 
>> > Qcom Slimbus controller driver is totally unused and dead code, there is
>> > no point in keeping this driver in the kernel without users.
>> > 
>> > This patch removes the driver along with device tree bindings.
>> > 
>> > Signed-off-by: Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> > ---
>> 
>> I *thiiink* this is apq806x code, with 8974 adopting the new hw.
>> 
>> +Dmitry, does you computer history museum require this driver?
>
> I never had time to try enabling audio on IFC6410 nor Nexus 7. But if
> the driver would be actually useable there, I'd prefer to keep it.

FWIW on the WIP msm8974 audio branch (from years ago, unfortunately), I
don't see "qcom,slim" compatible being used, also with no change to
drivers/slimbus/qcom-ctrl.c.

That branch is using the compatible "qcom,slim-ngd-v1.5.0" for MSM8974.

So at least for my museum collection, it's not needed.

Regards
Luca