On 01. 04. 20 12:38, Takashi Iwai wrote: > On Wed, 01 Apr 2020 12:35:16 +0200, > Michael Ellerman wrote: >> >> Michal Simek <michal.simek@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: >>> On 01. 04. 20 4:07, Michael Ellerman wrote: >>>> Michal Simek <michal.simek@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: >>>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>> recently we wanted to update xilinx intc driver and we found that function >>>>> which we wanted to remove is still wired by ancient Xilinx PowerPC >>>>> platforms. Here is the thread about it. >>>>> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-next/48d3232d-0f1d-42ea-3109-f44bbabfa2e8@xxxxxxxxxx/ >>>>> >>>>> I have been talking about it internally and there is no interest in these >>>>> platforms and it is also orphan for quite a long time. None is really >>>>> running/testing these platforms regularly that's why I think it makes sense >>>>> to remove them also with drivers which are specific to this platform. >>>>> >>>>> U-Boot support was removed in 2017 without anybody complain about it >>>>> https://github.com/Xilinx/u-boot-xlnx/commit/98f705c9cefdfdba62c069821bbba10273a0a8ed >>>>> >>>>> Based on current ppc/next. >>>>> >>>>> If anyone has any objection about it, please let me know. >>>> >>>> Thanks for taking the time to find all this code and remove it. >>>> >>>> I'm not going to take this series for v5.7, it was posted too close to >>>> the merge window, and doing so wouldn't give people much time to object, >>>> especially given people are distracted at the moment. >>>> >>>> I'm happy to take it for v5.8, assuming there's no major objections. >>> >>> Sure. Just to let you know Christophe Leroy included this patch in his >>> series about ppc405 removal. It should be the same. >>> >>> If you don't want to take that alsa patch I can send it separately and >>> this patch can be taken from his series. I don't really mind but please >>> let me know what way you prefer. >> >> It's better to keep it all together, so I'm happy take the alsa patch as >> well, it's already been acked. > > Sure, please go ahead. g8. Thanks, Michal
