From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 09:55:50 -0700 > On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 09:40:35AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote: >> H8/300 has been dead for several years, the kernel for it has >> not compiled for ages, and recent versions of gcc for it are broken. >> It is time to drop support for it. >> >> Yes, I understand it is not that simple to drop an architecture, >> and it may need some discussion, but someone has to put a stake >> into the ground. Keeping a virtually dead architecture on life support >> takes resources which are better spent elsewhere. > > If this doesn't build, and no one is using it anymore, I agree, it > should be removed. If someone wants to revive it, 'git revert' works > just fine. > > You can put my: > > Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > on these patches, unless someone steps up to be the active maintainer of > the arch and gets it building/working again. I completely agree with Greg, and for the IDE and networking bits: Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
