From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnd Bergmann Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/12] Remove mach-msm and associated code Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2015 20:55:30 +0100 Message-ID: <3936339.LqGDoxnsbi@wuerfel> References: <1426270185-19510-1-git-send-email-sboyd@codeaurora.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Return-path: Received: from mout.kundenserver.de ([212.227.17.10]:52918 "EHLO mout.kundenserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932260AbbCMTz5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Mar 2015 15:55:57 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1426270185-19510-1-git-send-email-sboyd@codeaurora.org> Sender: linux-arm-msm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org To: Stephen Boyd Cc: linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, David Brown , Bryan Huntsman , Daniel Walker , Linus Walleij , Alexandre Courbot , Greg Kroah-Hartman , "David S . Miller" , Ulf Hansson , Chris Ball , Alan Stern , linux-usb@vger.kernel.org On Friday 13 March 2015 11:09:33 Stephen Boyd wrote: > The maintainers for mach-msm no longer have any plans to support > or test the platforms supported by this architecture[1]. Most likely > there aren't any active users of this code anyway, so let's > delete it and the associated drivers/code. We should probably merge > this as one big series through arm-soc. Although some patches > should be fine to take through maintainers, some things like > mmc and usb have header file dependencies for platform_data. > > [1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150307031212.GA8434@fifo99.com > As I wrote, I'd have a mild preference for doing the multiplatform conversion first and then removing the support in the following merge window, just in case someone wants that code back. If everyone wants to see that code die rather sooner than later, that's fine with me as well. I think the MMC driver should also be removed when the platform code is deleted, new code would use the mmci driver anyway. Arnd From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: arnd@arndb.de (Arnd Bergmann) Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2015 20:55:30 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 00/12] Remove mach-msm and associated code In-Reply-To: <1426270185-19510-1-git-send-email-sboyd@codeaurora.org> References: <1426270185-19510-1-git-send-email-sboyd@codeaurora.org> Message-ID: <3936339.LqGDoxnsbi@wuerfel> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Friday 13 March 2015 11:09:33 Stephen Boyd wrote: > The maintainers for mach-msm no longer have any plans to support > or test the platforms supported by this architecture[1]. Most likely > there aren't any active users of this code anyway, so let's > delete it and the associated drivers/code. We should probably merge > this as one big series through arm-soc. Although some patches > should be fine to take through maintainers, some things like > mmc and usb have header file dependencies for platform_data. > > [1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150307031212.GA8434 at fifo99.com > As I wrote, I'd have a mild preference for doing the multiplatform conversion first and then removing the support in the following merge window, just in case someone wants that code back. If everyone wants to see that code die rather sooner than later, that's fine with me as well. I think the MMC driver should also be removed when the platform code is deleted, new code would use the mmci driver anyway. Arnd