Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > 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? > I asked whether we may remove its supporting in mainline before not just one time and then no objection at that time... > 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. > Yeah, I think so ;-) > 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 S5P6442. I did commit a73ddc61 'ARM: S5P6442: Removing ARCH_S5P6442' in 2011 because that could not be mass-produced. > we never remove stuff, the rule is that we never break things for > active users. > YES. > As always, if it turns out that we missed some active users, we will > revert these patches, or bring support back another way. > Sure, so please let us know if you have any objection on this removing. > This should probably all be spelled out explicitly in the changelog > for patch 1, which I admit I have not seen. > It's my fault, sorry I forgot it and I'm resending 1/17 and 8/17 with -D. Thanks, Kukjin -- 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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