Re: [PATCH] crypto: qce - Remove driver

Bartosz Golaszewski <[email protected]> Fri, 24 Jul 2026 14:47:48 +0000

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On Fri, 24 Jul 2026 16:14:14 +0200, Eric Biggers <[email protected]> said:
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> And with the defaults QCE is *never* used.
>

It's almost EOD here and I'm going to disconnect for the weekend but I just
wanted to say before I leave: this has never been a reason for an aggresive
removal of any driver. We remove drivers when we stop supporting entire
platforms, not mostly unused drivers on actively *supported* platforms where
they can still be used for experimentation and testing. I'm fine with dropping
this from arm64 defconfig but with fixes, the BROKEN tag should be removed
and I definitely object to removing it from the tree. How many people still
use greybus? Should we drop it from the kernel too? And I'm saying it as
a project ARA alumni. :)

Let's pick it up next week.

Thanks,
Bartosz