Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Hi, > > Le 03/06/2020 à 10:10, Michal Simek a écrit : >> Hi Michael, >> >> On 26. 05. 20 15:44, Michael Ellerman wrote: >>> Michal Simek <monstr@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >>>> Hi Michael, >>>> >>>> On 01. 04. 20 13:30, Michal Simek wrote: >>>>> 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. >>>> >>>> Can you please take this series? I know that there is v5 from Christophe >>>> which has this 1/2 as 1/13. But I need this alsa patch too and I would >>>> like to close this because it is around for almost 2 months and none >>>> raised a concern about removing just these Xilinx platforms. >>> >>> Sorry I meant to reply to your last mail. >>> >>> I have Christophe's series in my testing branch, planning for it to be >>> in v5.8. >>> >>> Even if the rest of his series doesn't make it for some reason, as you >>> say the Xilinx removal is uncontroversial so I'll keep that in. >>> >>> I forgot about the sound patch, I'll pick that up as well. >> >> I took a look at your >> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux.git repo >> and I can't see any branch with my patches. >> Also was checking linux-next and my patches are also not there. >> That's why I am curious if this will be go v5.8 in MW. > > I see them in > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux.git in > next-test branch. Which == the next branch, which is what will go into v5.8, all going well. cheers
