On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 08:19:50PM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 11:43:53AM -0800, David Brown wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 11:33:12AM -0800, Daniel Walker wrote: > > > On Thu, 2011-12-01 at 11:27 -0800, David Brown wrote: > > > > On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 10:39:05AM -0800, Daniel Walker wrote: > > > > > > > > > > If someone is willing to step up and make it work, then we can keep it > > > > > > around. My only G1 is fried, so I have no way to do anything other > > > > > > than keep it compiling. > > > > > > > > > > Unfortunately, You can't remove it regardless of whether or not you have > > > > > one to test on.. Your job is to do the best you can to keep it working > > > > > and maintained. If you don't have one then you can't boot test but you > > > > > still have to your best to keep it as close to working as possible. > > > > > > > > I was trying to get an idea if anyone uses the target. If people > > > > want the target around, we can just ignore my patches to remove it. > > > > > > Please don't ever do this again. > > > > That's awfully harsh. I sent an email a few weeks back asking about > > removing the target, and I only got one positive response. Sometimes > > sending a patch is the best way to get a reaction. > > That's pretty normal for just 'asking' about doing something. > > You've done the right thing - if you ask, people treat your message as > low priority and don't bother replying in the hope that nothing will > happen. > > However, if you send a patch to delete a platform, people treat it as > most urgent because if they care they need to speak up to actually stop > it happening. (Even if you intend to only actually submit it in 6 > months time or so - but don't mention that in the initial posting!) > > Now, the obvious question to ask now is this: as you sent your question, > and Daniel obviously objects, was Daniel one of your respondants? If > not, then he carries some of the blame for this patch being created > in the first place by having missed the email/not replied/etc. Yeah, my mistake was forgetting to CC Daniel on the original question about removing the target. And I've learned what I needed to now: someone does still care about the target. David -- Sent by an employee of the Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. The Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of the Code Aurora Forum. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arm-msm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html