Re: [PATCH 09/28] Remove ATHEROS_AR231X

Sergey Ryazanov
2014-06-18T11:10:24Z

Hi Paul,

2014-06-18 14:25 GMT+04:00 Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>:
> Jiri, Nick, Luis, John,
>
> On Wed, 2014-04-16 at 13:20 +0400, Sergey Ryazanov wrote:
>> 2014-04-15 21:08 GMT+04:00 Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>:
>> > On Thu, 2014-02-13 at 15:14 -0500, John W. Linville wrote:
>> >> On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 02:50:30PM +0400, Sergey Ryazanov wrote:
>> >> > John, can you delay the merging of this patch for a few months, I will
>> >> > try to prepare the necessary patches to add AR231x architecture to the
>> >> > kernel and send them to linux-mips.
>> >>
>> >> OK -- looking forward to your patches.
>> >
>> > So am I. Is there any news on this front?
>> >
>>
>> Work still in progress :(
>
> ATHEROS_AR231X and the things depending on it, like AHB bus support,
> have been discussed for three years now. When will you (re)consider a
> patch to remove all currently dead code?
>
> And to state the obvious: AHB bus support, and the other code depending
> on ATHEROS_AR231X, can always be re-added once ATHEROS_AR231X gets added
> to the tree.
>

Work in progress, I don't stop it. Just work is progressing slower
than I had planned. I am already cleanup the code (mostly checkpatch
errors and warnings) and send patches to OpenWRT tree. Further I plan
to simplify initialization and I will be ready to send patches
upstream.

I need a couple of weeks for this. Is its reasonable time to not make
a mess of remove/add commits?

--
BR,
Sergey