Re: [PATCH for-4.5 3/4] tools/misc: Delete more obsolete utilities

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>]

On Fri, 2014-10-17 at 12:13 -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 06:33:56PM +0100, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> > * nsplitd has been orphaned from the build since its introduction in c/s
> >   dc44ed4764 (in 2004), and never been developed since.  While it does appear
> >   to compile, it is full of pointer width mismatch, pointer sign mismatch, and
> >   uninitialised variable warnings, which makes it unlikely to function
> >   correctly when compiled for a 64bit environment.
> > 
> > * xen-python-path was declared obsolete in c/s 11e1149fe (in 2009) and can't
> >   actually be used correctly by out-of-tree components.  5 years is long enough
> >   for out-of-tree callers to catch up.
> > 
> > There are no subdirectories any more, so drop the notion from the Makefile.
> 
> Release-Acked-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>

Acked + applied up to here then.

I wasn't quite sure what to make of 4/4 release wise.

> I think I know what the release code-name is going to be: SlimDiet!

$ git diff --stat RELEASE-4.4.0 

says "76136 insertions(+), 141713 deletions(-)", which is pretty close
to removing twice as much code as we added in this cycle...