On Sat, 27 Oct 2018, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
Hi Arnd,
https://lwn.net/Articles/769468/ wrote:
For example, the m68k architecture uses a number of internal APIs
that no other architecture needs at this point; removing that
architecture would enable removing the APIs as well
and
Ted Ts'o suggested that an ultimatum could be made: either the m68k
architecture stops using the old, deprecated timer API (for example)
within one year or it is removed from the kernel.
Which APIs are these exactly?
Tree-wide replacement of deprecated API's is one thing.
Gunning for one particular architecture is a different matter.
Of course, if that architecture is known to be fatally flawed (hi spectre)
that's quite okay.
--
This kind of approach has worked well in the Debian community
Right, Debian stopped supporting m68k a long time ago ;-)
Thanks!
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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