From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnd Bergmann Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2015 21:56:46 +0000 Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Renesas ARM Based SoC sh7372 SoC Removal Updates for v4.1 Message-Id: <2173215.cbpof3lVb6@wuerfel> List-Id: References: <3043216.AuL1ank19q@wuerfel> In-Reply-To: <3043216.AuL1ank19q@wuerfel> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org On Wednesday 04 March 2015 21:31:52 Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Thursday 26 February 2015 15:22:11 Simon Horman wrote: > > Renesas ARM Based SoC sh7372 SoC Removal Updates for v4.1 > > > > * Remove the sh7372 SoC and its mackerel board > > > > Pulled into next/cleanup. > > I found the text a little short to justify a removal, but since I know > the story, I've extended the narrative a bit, I hope this text is > ok with you: > > [arnd: The sh7372 platform is rather dated and is believed to > have no active users. It stands in the way of converting all > of mach-shmobile to be multiplatform capable, as adding > pinctrl and clock support for it would be more work than it's > worth. As always, should any legitimate upstream users show up > in the future, we will revert this removal] > > It would be nice to have more text in the tag description for cases that > are not obvious to the reader, like this one. Upon further consideration, I've put this into next/multiplatform instead of next/cleanup. Arnd