Re: [PATCH 0/5] tools: remove more of ia64 support

[George Dunlap <george.dunlap@eu.citrix.com>]

On 12/06/2013 09:45 AM, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-12-05 at 22:09 +0100, Olaf Hering wrote:
>> Remove a few more occurrences of ia64 from the sources.
> Thanks. As you'll have seen from George's development updates we are now
> well into code freeze and close to an rc0 for 4.4.
>
> So every patch needs to come with some sort of justification for why it
> should be accepted for 4.4 (or have an explicit note indicating that it
> is 4.5 material).
>
> In this case although removing code seems harmless enough it does risk
> causing build failures, or in the case of the python stuff, runtime
> exceptions. I don't think the benefits outweigh the risks for 4.4.
> George?
>
> We also have a policy these days of CCing the folks listed in
> MAINTAINERS. You might find ./scripts/get_maintainers.pl useful.
>
> BTW, George while I have you attention -- do you have a standard link
> which I can direct people to regarding the freeze exception
> considerations (the "#1 an awesome releases stuff") and the methodology
> which I've seen you deploy in various threads. Or if not a standard link
> a particular instance which is especially illustrative?

Hmm, not yet -- I'll put it on the "roadmap" page.

  -George