Hello Ard! On Sat, 2023-01-28 at 13:29 +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > 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 it has been replaced by a better system and you 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/ Sounds reasonable to me. Acked-by: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer `. `' Physicist `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
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