On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 4:18 PM Linus Walleij <[email protected]> wrote:
> The FMC subsystem was created in 2012 with the ambition to > drive development of drivers for this hardware upstream. > > The current implementation has architectural flaws and would > need to be revamped using real hardware to something that can > reuse existing kernel abstractions in the subsystems for e.g. > I2C, FPGA and GPIO. > > We have concluded that for the mainline kernel it will be > better to delete the subsystem and start over with a clean > slate when/if an active maintainer steps up. > > For details see: > https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/10/29/534 > > Suggested-by: Federico Vaga <[email protected]> > Cc: Federico Vaga <[email protected]> > Cc: Pat Riehecky <[email protected]> > Cc: Alessandro Rubini <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <[email protected]> After consent from the authors I have queued the removal in the GPIO subsystem tree. Yours, Linus Walleij
