Re: [PATCH linux dev-5.8] soc: aspeed: Remove misc control interface driver

[Andrew Jeffery]

On Tue, 17 Nov 2020, at 15:53, Joel Stanley wrote:
> This driver is no longer in use. There were two consumers in OpenBMC
> userspace:
> 
>  - hb_settings
> 
>     This was used to set the ASPEED LPC scratch registers.
> 
>     The scratch registers are no longer used after the SuperIO controller
>     was disabled to mitigate the pantsdown issues.
> 
>  - uart-render-controller
> 
>    This was used for controlling the ASPEED VGA mux, to switch between
>    the internal graphics device and the VGA device.
> 
>    The mux now has an upstream sysfs control as part of the DRM driver
>    and userspace has been updated to use that.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Joel Stanley <joel at jms.id.au>

Party-parrotted-by: Andrew Jeffery <andrew at aj.id.au>