staging: fieldbus: Delete unused driver
authorPhilipp Hortmann <philipp.g.hortmann@gmail.com>
Sat, 2 Nov 2024 19:14:34 +0000 (20:14 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sun, 3 Nov 2024 23:53:07 +0000 (00:53 +0100)
commit8898f64f7ae4e60d48065812965a75d627bb9e55
tree4d00d576c6f0b6a07cbce449a2c6eb50cc54790b
parent41e883c137ebe6eec042658ef750cbb0529f6ca8
staging: fieldbus: Delete unused driver

Sven Van Asbroeck contributed this driver in 2019.

The following reasons lead to the removal:
- This driver generates maintenance workload
- only 11 patches during the last 3 years. Part of the patches seem to be
  motivated because of maintenance (for example - remove deprecated
  function)
- Maintainer lost interest, last "Reviewed-by:" is May 2021
- no blog about usage of this driver

The staging subsystem is the way for drivers into the kernel - at current
speed and interest this is never going to happen. I think that fieldbus
is an interesting topic. But when almost nobody cares about this driver,
it does not make sense to keep it. Please consider that support will
remain for years in the longterm kernels.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-staging/96ae2b42-c0ce-4d9a-8933-eb874dc5589b@gmail.com/T/#u
Signed-off-by: Philipp Hortmann <philipp.g.hortmann@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241102191436.23177-1-philipp.g.hortmann@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
19 files changed:
MAINTAINERS
drivers/staging/Kconfig
drivers/staging/Makefile
drivers/staging/fieldbus/Documentation/ABI/fieldbus-dev-cdev [deleted file]
drivers/staging/fieldbus/Documentation/ABI/sysfs-class-fieldbus-dev [deleted file]
drivers/staging/fieldbus/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/fieldbus/arcx,anybus-controller.txt [deleted file]
drivers/staging/fieldbus/Documentation/fieldbus_dev.txt [deleted file]
drivers/staging/fieldbus/Kconfig [deleted file]
drivers/staging/fieldbus/Makefile [deleted file]
drivers/staging/fieldbus/TODO [deleted file]
drivers/staging/fieldbus/anybuss/Kconfig [deleted file]
drivers/staging/fieldbus/anybuss/Makefile [deleted file]
drivers/staging/fieldbus/anybuss/anybuss-client.h [deleted file]
drivers/staging/fieldbus/anybuss/anybuss-controller.h [deleted file]
drivers/staging/fieldbus/anybuss/arcx-anybus.c [deleted file]
drivers/staging/fieldbus/anybuss/hms-profinet.c [deleted file]
drivers/staging/fieldbus/anybuss/host.c [deleted file]
drivers/staging/fieldbus/dev_core.c [deleted file]
drivers/staging/fieldbus/fieldbus_dev.h [deleted file]