From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Olaf Hering Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/11] unmodified_drivers: remove ia64 parts of the code Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 15:26:23 +0100 Message-ID: <20140312142623.GA22238@aepfle.de> References: <1394122436-1392-1-git-send-email-olaf@aepfle.de> <1394122436-1392-3-git-send-email-olaf@aepfle.de> <532079DF02000078001233EA@nat28.tlf.novell.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <532079DF02000078001233EA@nat28.tlf.novell.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Jan Beulich Cc: Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com, Ian.Campbell@citrix.com, xen-devel@lists.xen.org List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Wed, Mar 12, Jan Beulich wrote: > >>> On 06.03.14 at 17:13, Olaf Hering wrote: > > Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering > > --- > > .../linux-2.6/compat-include/xen/platform-compat.h | 4 --- > > unmodified_drivers/linux-2.6/mkbuildtree | 16 +--------- > > unmodified_drivers/linux-2.6/overrides.mk | 3 -- > > unmodified_drivers/linux-2.6/platform-pci/Kbuild | 4 --- > > .../linux-2.6/platform-pci/panic-handler.c | 14 --------- > > .../linux-2.6/platform-pci/platform-pci.c | 23 -------------- > > .../linux-2.6/platform-pci/xen_support.c | 36 ---------------------- > > 7 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 99 deletions(-) > > Why? In fact I think it was a mistake too to remove the ia64 bits > from the public headers - there's nothing wrong with someone > still wanting to build ia64 PV drivers against an old Linux tree (e.g. > linux-2.6.18-xen.hg itself, where I intentionally avoided mirroring > that public header cleanup), and the implementation going away > is unrelated to the interface definitions remaining the same. Wouldnt they pick 4.3 or older for that task, given that there are no relevant changes? But I'm fine with dropping that patch. Olaf