From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail-oa1-f52.google.com (mail-oa1-f52.google.com [209.85.160.52]) by mx.groups.io with SMTP id smtpd.web11.79895.1680547005269089239 for ; Mon, 03 Apr 2023 11:36:45 -0700 Received: by mail-oa1-f52.google.com with SMTP id 586e51a60fabf-17aeb49429eso31835838fac.6 for ; Mon, 03 Apr 2023 11:36:45 -0700 (PDT) Return-Path: Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2023 13:36:43 -0500 From: Rob Herring Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC v2 0/4] ARM: oxnas support removal Message-ID: <20230403183643.GA1335487-robh@kernel.org> References: <20230331-topic-oxnas-upstream-remove-v2-0-e51078376f08@linaro.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20230331-topic-oxnas-upstream-remove-v2-0-e51078376f08@linaro.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline To: Neil Armstrong Cc: Arnd Bergmann , Olof Johansson , soc@kernel.org, Krzysztof Kozlowski , Russell King , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-oxnas@groups.io, Linus Walleij , Daniel Golle , Krzysztof Kozlowski List-ID: On Mon, Apr 03, 2023 at 09:42:17AM +0200, Neil Armstrong wrote: > With [1] removing MPCore SMP support, this makes the OX820 barely usable, > associated with a clear lack of maintainance, development and migration to > dt-schema it's clear that Linux support for OX810 and OX820 should be removed. > > In addition, the OX810 hasn't been booted for years and isn't even present > in an ARM config file. > > For the OX820, lack of USB and SATA support makes the platform not usable > in the current Linux support and relies on off-tree drivers hacked from the > vendor (defunct for years) sources. > > The last users are in the OpenWRT distribution, and today's removal means > support will still be in stable 6.1 LTS kernel until end of 2026. > > If someone wants to take over the development even with lack of SMP, I'll > be happy to hand off maintainance. > > The plan is to apply the first 4 patches first, then the drivers > followed by bindings. Finally the MAINTAINANCE entry can be removed. > > I'm not sure about the process of bindings removal, but perhaps the bindings > should be marked as deprecated first then removed later on ? Nah, just remove them. Like the code, we can always bring them back if needed. Rob