staging: Remove the drivers for the Unisys s-Par
authorFabio M. De Francesco <fmdefrancesco@gmail.com>
Thu, 14 Apr 2022 10:32:17 +0000 (12:32 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 20 Apr 2022 16:39:04 +0000 (18:39 +0200)
commite5f45b011e4a86d62fb3d9d9a634ec30a3027649
tree99b576a985f81a5d3c2dbea3f326edca5dde186e
parent9dc9653c8501b96123d5ca00ec792ca0e4b27180
staging: Remove the drivers for the Unisys s-Par

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>
29 files changed:
MAINTAINERS
drivers/Kconfig
drivers/Makefile
drivers/staging/Kconfig
drivers/staging/Makefile
drivers/staging/unisys/Documentation/ABI/sysfs-platform-visorchipset [deleted file]
drivers/staging/unisys/Documentation/overview.txt [deleted file]
drivers/staging/unisys/Kconfig [deleted file]
drivers/staging/unisys/MAINTAINERS [deleted file]
drivers/staging/unisys/Makefile [deleted file]
drivers/staging/unisys/TODO [deleted file]
drivers/staging/unisys/include/iochannel.h [deleted file]
drivers/staging/unisys/visorhba/Kconfig [deleted file]
drivers/staging/unisys/visorhba/Makefile [deleted file]
drivers/staging/unisys/visorhba/visorhba_main.c [deleted file]
drivers/staging/unisys/visorinput/Kconfig [deleted file]
drivers/staging/unisys/visorinput/Makefile [deleted file]
drivers/staging/unisys/visorinput/visorinput.c [deleted file]
drivers/staging/unisys/visornic/Kconfig [deleted file]
drivers/staging/unisys/visornic/Makefile [deleted file]
drivers/staging/unisys/visornic/visornic_main.c [deleted file]
drivers/visorbus/Kconfig [deleted file]
drivers/visorbus/Makefile [deleted file]
drivers/visorbus/controlvmchannel.h [deleted file]
drivers/visorbus/vbuschannel.h [deleted file]
drivers/visorbus/visorbus_main.c [deleted file]
drivers/visorbus/visorbus_private.h [deleted file]
drivers/visorbus/visorchannel.c [deleted file]
drivers/visorbus/visorchipset.c [deleted file]