From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-watchdog@vger.kernel.org,
Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>, Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>,
Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@huawei.com>,
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] Drop support for Renesys H8/300 architecture
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 09:55:50 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130830165550.GA8151@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1377880842-6835-1-git-send-email-linux@roeck-us.net>
On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 09:40:35AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> H8/300 has been dead for several years, the kernel for it has
> not compiled for ages, and recent versions of gcc for it are broken.
> It is time to drop support for it.
>
> Yes, I understand it is not that simple to drop an architecture,
> and it may need some discussion, but someone has to put a stake
> into the ground. Keeping a virtually dead architecture on life support
> takes resources which are better spent elsewhere.
If this doesn't build, and no one is using it anymore, I agree, it
should be removed. If someone wants to revive it, 'git revert' works
just fine.
You can put my:
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
on these patches, unless someone steps up to be the active maintainer of
the arch and gets it building/working again.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-08-30 16:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-08-30 16:40 [PATCH 0/7] Drop support for Renesys H8/300 architecture Guenter Roeck
2013-08-30 16:40 ` [PATCH 1/7] Drop support for Renesys H8/300 (h8300) architecture Guenter Roeck
2013-08-30 23:01 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2013-08-30 23:47 ` Guenter Roeck
2013-08-30 16:40 ` [PATCH 2/7] ide: Drop H8/300 driver Guenter Roeck
2013-08-30 16:40 ` [PATCH 3/7] net/ethernet: smsc: Drop conditional code for H8/300 Guenter Roeck
2013-08-30 16:40 ` [PATCH 4/7] net/ethernet: Drop H8/300 Ethernet driver Guenter Roeck
2013-08-30 16:40 ` [PATCH 5/7] watchdog: Drop references to H8300 architecture Guenter Roeck
2013-08-30 16:40 ` [PATCH 6/7] Drop MAINTAINERS entry for H8/300 Guenter Roeck
2013-08-30 16:40 ` [PATCH 7/7] Drop remaining references to H8/300 architecture Guenter Roeck
2013-08-30 16:55 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2013-08-30 18:30 ` [PATCH 0/7] Drop support for Renesys " David Miller
2013-08-30 17:01 ` Joe Perches
2013-08-30 17:07 ` Guenter Roeck
2013-08-30 18:46 ` Wim Van Sebroeck
2013-08-30 19:11 ` Guenter Roeck
2013-08-30 19:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-08-30 19:37 ` Guenter Roeck
2013-08-31 6:44 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2013-08-31 13:56 ` Guenter Roeck
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