I'll pipe up on this thread too

On Tue, 2019-12-10 at 02:42 -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On 12/10/19 1:15 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > This driver has been in the tree since 2009 with no real movement to get
> > it out.  Now it is starting to cause build issues and other problems for
> > people who want to fix coding style problems, but can not actually build
> > it.
> > 
> > As nothing is happening here, just delete the module entirely.
> > 
> > Reported-by: Guenter Roeck <[email protected]>
> > Cc: David Daney <[email protected]>
> > Cc: "David S. Miller" <[email protected]>
> > Cc: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <[email protected]>
> > Cc: Guenter Roeck <[email protected]>
> > Cc: YueHaibing <[email protected]>
> > Cc: Aaro Koskinen <[email protected]>
> > Cc: Wambui Karuga <[email protected]>
> > Cc: Julia Lawall <[email protected]>
> > Cc: Florian Westphal <[email protected]>
> > Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <[email protected]>
> > Cc: Branden Bonaby <[email protected]>
> > Cc: "Petr Štetiar" <[email protected]>
> > Cc: Sandro Volery <[email protected]>
> > Cc: Paul Burton <[email protected]>
> > Cc: Dan Carpenter <[email protected]>
> > Cc: Giovanni Gherdovich <[email protected]>
> > Cc: Valery Ivanov <[email protected]>
> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
> 
> Acked-by: Guenter Roeck <[email protected]>

Please can we keep this driver. We do have platforms using it and we
would like it to stay around.

Clearly we'll need to sort things out to a point where they build
successfully. We've been hoping to see this move out of staging ever
since we selected Cavium as a vendor.
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