From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <4C7757B1.9060403@snapgear.com> Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 16:14:09 +1000 From: Greg Ungerer MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Geert Uytterhoeven Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/9] Removing dead code References: <4C5F9715.1030806@snapgear.com> <86tyn4ximi.fsf@peer.zerties.org> <861v9ptzex.fsf@peer.zerties.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-m68k@vger.kernel.org, Roman Zippel , John Stultz , Dominik Brodowski , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Grant Likely , Alexander Kurz , linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, Michael Roth , Greg Ungerer , Christoph Hellwig , Finn Thain , Tony Lindgren , vamos-dev@i4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de, Lennart Sorensen , Russell King , Anatolij Gustschin , Sam Creasey , linux-pcmcia@lists.infradead.org, Mike Frysinger , Sean MacLennan , Joe Perches , Maxim Kuvyrkov , Thomas Gleixner , Christian Dietrich , Jiri Kosina , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Wolfram Sang , Ralf Baechle , Martin Schwidefsky , Manuel Lauss , Andrew Morton , David Woodhouse List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 12:07, Christian Dietrich > wrote: >> Christian Dietrich writes: >>>> I don't have any problems with any of these from a >>>> m68knommu point of view. I can merge them via the >>>> m68knommu git tree if you want? >>> If there aren't any complaints from the m68k people i'm fine with >>> that. >> Hm, last message was two weeks ago, so perhaps the m68k people (with >> mmu) have no complaints with these patches and they can be included in >> the m68knommu tree? > > Sorry, I've been a bit too busy with other things... > > - arch/m68k: Removing dead GG2 config option > Fine for me > - arch/m68k{,nommu}: Removing dead SMP config option > Are there any SMP m68k systems coming? > If yes, we may want to keep it. From the other hand, probably many > other places > need adjustment for SMP too, so the few checks for CONFIG_SMP may give a > false feeling of readiness for SMP. > - arch/m68knommu: Removing dead M68KFPU_EMU config option > With the imminent(?) merge of mmu and nommu, perhaps we want to keep it? I think what is in there is so old and decrepit that it is more of a hindrance than a help :-) When we merge we should just be using what is currently in the m68k part of the source. So I am happy to remove the m68knommu FPU code right now. Regards Greg > Gr{oetje,eeting}s, > > Geert > > -- > Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org > > In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But > when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. > -- Linus Torvalds > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Greg Ungerer -- Principal Engineer EMAIL: gerg@snapgear.com SnapGear Group, McAfee PHONE: +61 7 3435 2888 8 Gardner Close FAX: +61 7 3217 5323 Milton, QLD, 4064, Australia WEB: http://www.SnapGear.com