From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Sudeep Dutt <sudeep.dutt@intel.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dmaengine@vger.kernel.org,
linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
Vinod Koul <vkoul@kernel.org>, Sherry Sun <sherry.sun@nxp.com>,
Ashutosh Dixit <ashutosh.dixit@intel.com>,
Nikhil Rao <nikhil.rao@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH char-misc-next 1/1] misc: mic: remove the MIC drivers
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2020 06:54:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201028055429.GA244117@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8c1443136563de34699d2c084df478181c205db4.1603854416.git.sudeep.dutt@intel.com>
On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 08:14:15PM -0700, Sudeep Dutt wrote:
> This patch removes the MIC drivers from the kernel tree
> since the corresponding devices have been discontinued.
Does "discontinued" mean "never shipped a device so no one has access to
this hardware anymore", or does it mean "we stopped shipping devices and
there are customers with this?"
> Removing the dma and char-misc changes in one patch and
> merging via the char-misc tree is best to avoid any
> potential build breakage.
>
> Cc: Nikhil Rao <nikhil.rao@intel.com>
> Reviewed-by: Ashutosh Dixit <ashutosh.dixit@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Sudeep Dutt <sudeep.dutt@intel.com>
I like deleting code, can this go into 5.10-final?
thanks,
greg k-h
next parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-29 1:01 UTC|newest]
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2020-10-28 5:54 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2020-10-28 6:04 ` [PATCH char-misc-next 1/1] misc: mic: remove the MIC drivers Vinod Koul
2020-10-28 17:22 ` Dutt, Sudeep
2020-10-28 18:09 ` gregkh
2020-10-28 7:15 ` Sherry Sun
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