Create a new status 'dead' which conveys that a subsystem is unmaintained and scheduled for removal, and developers are free to behave as if it's already gone. Also, automated build tests should ignore such subsystems, or at least notify only those who are known to have an interest in the subsystem in particular. Given that Itanium/IA64 has no maintainer, is no longer supported in QEMU (for boot testing under emulation) and does not seem to have a user base beyond a couple of machines used by distros to churn out packages, let's mark it as dead. This shall mean that any treewide changes (such as changes to the EFI subsystem, which I maintain) can be made even if they might cause build or boot time regressions on IA64 machines. Also, mark the port as scheduled for removal after the next LTS release. Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jessica Clarke <jrtc27@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: linux-ia64@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAMj1kXEqbMEcrKYzz2-huLPMnotPoxFY8adyH=Xb4Ex8o98x-w@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@xxxxxxxxxx> --- MAINTAINERS | 10 +++++++++- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS index 5b74014994f5c1cc..5481967c2112e8ce 100644 --- a/MAINTAINERS +++ b/MAINTAINERS @@ -94,6 +94,14 @@ Descriptions of section entries and preferred order Obsolete: Old code. Something tagged obsolete generally means it has been replaced by a better system and you should be using that. + Dead: Code has no maintainer and no significant user base, + and is scheduled for removal. Developers are free to + ignore it when it comes to testing bug fixes or other + code changes, and automated build test systems must not + report any detected issues, except possibly to mailing + lists or other recipients that have opted in + specifically to receiving reports about the state of + this code. W: *Web-page* with status/info Q: *Patchwork* web based patch tracking system site B: URI for where to file *bugs*. A web-page with detailed bug @@ -9833,7 +9841,7 @@ F: include/linux/i3c/ IA64 (Itanium) PLATFORM L: linux-ia64@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -S: Orphan +S: Dead # to be removed after the 2023 LTS release F: Documentation/ia64/ F: arch/ia64/ -- 2.39.0
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