linux-toradex.git/drivers/visorbus/Makefile, branch master Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules staging: Remove the drivers for the Unisys s-Par 2022-04-20T16:39:04+00:00 Fabio M. De Francesco fmdefrancesco@gmail.com 2022-04-14T10:32:17+00:00 e5f45b011e4a86d62fb3d9d9a634ec30a3027649 The Unisys sub-tree of drivers/staging contains three drivers for the "Unisys Secure Partition" (s-Par(R)): visorhba, visorinput, visornic. They have no maintainers, in fact the only one that is listed in MAINTAINERS has an unreacheable email address. During 2021 and 2022 several patches have been submitted to these drivers but nobody at Unisys cared of reviewing the changes. Probably, also the "sparmaintainer" internal list of unisys.com is not anymore read by interested Unisys' engineers. Therefore, remove the drivers/staging/unisys directory and delete the relevant entries in the MAINTAINERS, Kconfig, Makefile files, then remove also the drivers/visorbus directory which is not anymore needed (it contained the driver for the virtualized bus for the Unisys s-Par firmware). Cc: David Kershner <david.kershner@unisys.com> Cc: <sparmaintainer@unisys.com> Cc: Ken Cox <jkc@redhat.com> Suggested-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Fabio M. De Francesco <fmdefrancesco@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220414103217.32058-1-fmdefrancesco@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 
The Unisys sub-tree of drivers/staging contains three drivers for the
"Unisys Secure Partition" (s-Par(R)): visorhba, visorinput, visornic.

They have no maintainers, in fact the only one that is listed in
MAINTAINERS has an unreacheable email address. During 2021 and 2022
several patches have been submitted to these drivers but nobody at
Unisys cared of reviewing the changes. Probably, also the
"sparmaintainer" internal list of unisys.com is not anymore read by
interested Unisys' engineers.

Therefore, remove the drivers/staging/unisys directory and delete the
relevant entries in the MAINTAINERS, Kconfig, Makefile files, then
remove also the drivers/visorbus directory which is not anymore needed
(it contained the driver for the virtualized bus for the Unisys s-Par
firmware).

Cc: David Kershner <david.kershner@unisys.com>
Cc: <sparmaintainer@unisys.com>
Cc: Ken Cox <jkc@redhat.com>
Suggested-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Fabio M. De Francesco <fmdefrancesco@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220414103217.32058-1-fmdefrancesco@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers: visorbus: move driver out of staging 2017-12-08T15:37:50+00:00 David Kershner david.kershner@unisys.com 2017-12-07T17:11:07+00:00 93d3ad90c2d470804b16f79e7e872408747d3e77 Move the visorbus driver out of staging (drivers/staging/unisys/visorbus) and to drivers/visorbus. Modify the configuration and makefiles so they now reference the new location. The s-Par header file visorbus.h that is referenced by all s-Par drivers, is being moved into include/linux. Signed-off-by: David Kershner <david.kershner@unisys.com> Reviewed-by: Tim Sell <timothy.sell@unisys.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 
Move the visorbus driver out of staging (drivers/staging/unisys/visorbus)
and to drivers/visorbus. Modify the configuration and makefiles so they
now reference the new location. The s-Par header file visorbus.h that is
referenced by all s-Par drivers, is being moved into include/linux.

Signed-off-by: David Kershner <david.kershner@unisys.com>
Reviewed-by: Tim Sell <timothy.sell@unisys.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>