On Monday 30 June 2014 16:22:25 Thierry Reding wrote: > On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 03:34:27PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > On Tuesday 01 July 2014 06:32:10 Kukjin Kim wrote: > > > This series removes S5P64X0 and S5PC100 related codes in mainline, > > > because no more user now. And if its supporting is required later, > > > it will be done with using device tree. > > > > > > > Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> > > It seems like I'm not completely up-to-date. What happened to our prime > directive never to remove support for boards? Why is this special? What > about people that still use this hardware? The commit message says that > there are no longer any users. How was this determined? >From what I can tell, the supported machines on these two platforms are all the official development prototypes, not production boards, and they came out in rather small quantities, probably Samsung-internal for the most part. The maintainers have previously assured me they are not aware of anybody using it, and I trust their judgment. I'm totally fine with removing support for these machines, and we have removed a number of similar platforms in the past. The rule is not that we never remove stuff, the rule is that we never break things for active users. As always, if it turns out that we missed some active users, we will revert these patches, or bring support back another way. This should probably all be spelled out explicitly in the changelog for patch 1, which I admit I have not seen. Arnd -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-samsung-soc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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