On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 2:23 AM, Chris Metcalf <metcalf@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 3/14/2018 10:36 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: >> >> The Tile architecture port was added by Chris Metcalf in 2010, and >> maintained until early 2018 when he orphaned it due to his departure >> from Mellanox, and nobody else stepped up to maintain it. The product >> line is still around in the form of the BlueField SoC, but no longer >> uses the Tile architecture. >> >> There are also still products for sale with Tile-GX SoCs, notably the >> Mikrotik CCR router family. The products all use old (linux-3.3) kernels >> with lots of patches and won't be upgraded by their manufacturers. There >> have been efforts to port both OpenWRT and Debian to these, but both >> projects have stalled and are very unlikely to be continued in the future. >> >> Given that we are reasonably sure that nobody is still using the port >> with an upstream kernel any more, it seems better to remove it now while >> the port is in a good shape than to let it bitrot for a few years first. > > > Arnd, thanks for dealing with this. > > There are a number of tile-specific driver files that are mostly called out > in the MAINTAINERS file. I would expect you should also delete those. > > > -F: drivers/char/tile-srom.c > -F: drivers/edac/tile_edac.c > -F: drivers/net/ethernet/tile/ > -F: drivers/rtc/rtc-tile.c > -F: drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_tile.c > -F: drivers/tty/serial/tilegx.c > -F: drivers/usb/host/*-tilegx.c > -F: include/linux/usb/tilegx.h Right. I covered all of those in my follow-up driver series, see https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/3/14/579 It's all in linux-next as of yesterday, but thanks for paying attention here. Arnd
