From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: linux@arm.linux.org.uk (Russell King - ARM Linux) Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 23:10:13 +0000 Subject: Updated mach-types update In-Reply-To: <20110321234150.23936e8f.dv@vollmann.ch> References: <20110320110322.GC16646@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> <20110321234150.23936e8f.dv@vollmann.ch> Message-ID: <20110321231013.GH4340@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 11:41:50PM +0100, Detlef Vollmann wrote: > On Sun, 20 Mar 2011 11:03:22 Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > > > What this means is that any platform in the machine database which has not > > been submitted to mainline for 12 months since it was registered will be > > automatically dropped from the file, and the platform maintainer will need > > to either talk to me to get it reinstated before submission, or update the > > entry in some way to 'freshen' it. > > So what happens to the number that was allocated for a platform that > got dropped? Will it be recycled for another platform or is it safe > to use it in code that is not intended to go mainline (to avoid cluttering > mainline with code that doesn't need to be mainline)? You've completely misunderstood what I said. Nothing has been deleted from the database. The file downloadable off the website continues to give the full set of entries. All that's happened is some filtering on the version I include in the mainline kernel to make it saner. There's no point including 2000 lines (which expand to about 700K of generated file) which aren't used in the mainline kernel.