[RFC] Sort out S5P SoCs support in mainline

[kgene.kim@samsung.com (Kukjin Kim)]

On 05/28/14 20:09, Tomasz Figa wrote:
> On 28.05.2014 13:04, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>> On Wednesday 28 May 2014 19:41:41 Kukjin Kim wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I'm wondering who need to support following SoCs/boards in mainline.
>>>
>>> * S5P64X0/SMDK6440 and SMDK6450
>>> * S5PC100/SMDKC100
>>>
>>> If nobody is using them, how about to remove them from mainline?
>>
>> I talked about this with Tomasz Figa before, he also thinks they can be removed.
>> I don't see any reason to keep them myself, and will apply a patch to remove
>> them. Of course, if later somebody comes around who does need them, we can
>> revert the patch to bring them back.

Yeah, agreed.

>
> Or better, if later somebody comes around who does need them, we can add
> them properly, using Device Tree and existing generic code.
>
Of course.

> Anyway, for removal of both s5p64x0 and s5pc100:
>
> Acked-by: Tomasz Figa<t.figa@samsung.com>
>
> Actually I have played a bit with the code to see how much can be
> removed and ended up with following branch:
>
> https://github.com/tom3q/linux.git v3.17-cleanup
>
> Feel free to do _whatever_ you want with patches there.
>
OK, thanks.

Let me remove them from mainline when 3.16-rc1 is released...

- Kukjin