Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] powerpc: Remove support for ppc405/440 Xilinx platforms

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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




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