From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnd Bergmann Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:20:53 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH 14/15] ARM: shmobile: Remove AP4EVB board support Message-Id: <201306172220.54015.arnd@arndb.de> List-Id: References: <1371106793-25071-1-git-send-email-horms+renesas@verge.net.au> <201306141629.26580.arnd@arndb.de> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org On Monday 17 June 2013, Magnus Damm wrote: > On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 11:29 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > On Friday 14 June 2013, Magnus Damm wrote: > >> > If still possible, would be good to delay removing this board until we > >> > complete our discussion. > >> > >> If fine with keeping the board if someone can show me progress in the > >> area of INTC DT support. Recently I have not seen anything. > > > > As mentioned the last time we discussed this, I'm fine with using the > > existing code and "legacy" irqdomain for the older INTC implementations, > > as long as all the new ones can use your new generic code. > > Thanks for explaining once again. Do you have any issues with us > reducing the number of supported boards and/or SoCs? No, I'm sure you know who the users of the board files in upstream kernels are. If someone comes up with a good reason why one of the files is needed after all, we can always revert the removal at a later point. I'm definitely in favor of removing known unused code that gets in the way of progress and adding clean code as quickly as we can review it. Arnd