[PATCH] ARM: remove ixp2000 platform

Nicolas Pitre
2012-03-06T01:41:51Z

On Tue, 28 Feb 2012, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

> On Tuesday 28 February 2012, Rob Herring wrote:
> > ixp2000 has no commits other than tree-wide changes or refactoring since
> > 2006. No maintainer is listed for ixp2000 either.
>
> I have this in my copy of the MAINTAINERS file:
>
> ARM/INTEL IXP2000 ARM ARCHITECTURE
> M: Lennert Buytenhek <kernel@wantstofly.org>
> L: linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org (moderated for non-subscribers)
> S: Maintained
>
> It's missing an F: line, otherwise it suggests that the platform is still
> maintained by Lennert and it certainly builds just fine. Unfortunately he
> seems to have fallen off the edge of the planet at the end of last year.

FYI, here's a snippet of a conversation I just had with Lennert on IRC
today:

13:05 < nico> do you still care about ixp2000?
13:22 < lennert> not really, no
13:58 < nico> do you think we could remove it from the kernel tree?
14:01 < lennert> go for it, and remove ixp23xx too while you're at it

Nicolas