On 07/04/2022 09:40, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Thu, Apr 7, 2022 at 9:23 AM Krzysztof Kozlowski > <krzysztof.kozlowski@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> The Samsung S3C24xx and S3C64xx platforms are very old designs. S3C2416 >> was introduced in 2008 and S3C6410 in 2009/2010. They are not widely >> available anymore - out-of-stock on FriendlyArm (one of manufacturers of >> boards) and only few specialist stores still offer them for quite a high >> price. >> >> The community around these platforms was not very active, so I suspect >> no one really uses them anymore. Maintenance takes precious time so >> there is little sense in keeping them alive if there are no real users. >> >> Let's mark all S3C24xx and S3C64xx platforms as deprecated and mention >> possible removal in after 2022 for the first and 2024 for the lattere. >> The deprecation message will be as text in Kconfig, build message (not a >> warning though) and runtime print error. >> >> If there are any users, they might respond and postpone the removal. >> >> Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@xxxxxxxxxx> >> Acked-by: Heiko Stuebner <heiko@xxxxxxxxx> >> Acked-by: Tomasz Figa <tomasz.figa@xxxxxxxxx> > > Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> > > Should I pick it up through the fixes branch for 5.18 if there are no > immediate objections, or do you prefer to just do it as part of your > normal samsung patches for 5.19? > > If you have nothing else planned for mach-s3c, I can also add it > to the multiplatform branch that already touches the platform. Feel free to take it as fixes (or s3c multiplatform). Best regards, Krzysztof
