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From: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Daniel Walker <dwalker@fifo99.com>
Cc: David Brown <davidb@codeaurora.org>,
	Bryan Huntsman <bryanh@codeaurora.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] ARM: msm: Remove MSM7x00 support
Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2011 20:35:06 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111201203506.GG9581@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1322771147.3704.21.camel@m0nster>

On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 12:25:47PM -0800, Daniel Walker wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-12-01 at 20:19 +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > Now, the obvious question to ask now is this: as you sent your question,
> > and Daniel obviously objects, was Daniel one of your respondants?  If
> > not, then he carries some of the blame for this patch being created
> > in the first place by having missed the email/not replied/etc.
> > 
> 
> What if the people using the hardware aren't even on the list ? It's not
> their fault is it?

Did you notice I mentioned six months?

The way to remove non-broken code is:
1. to ask.  If no one responds, then
2. submit a patch to put an entry in feature-removal-schedule.txt giving a
   description of what will be removed and when - and then flag it
   with a patch to remove it.  If no one responds to that, then
3. the patch to remove it re-posted, and if no one objects it gets
   merged.

So, if people care about bits of code _and_ they're not on the relevant
subsystem mailing lists, they need to keep an eye on the feature removal
file - otherwise they're in for nasty surprises.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-12-01 20:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-01  0:29 [PATCH 1/3] ARM: msm: Remove MSM7x00 support David Brown
2011-12-01  0:29 ` [PATCH 2/3] gpio_msm: remove support for MSM7x01 David Brown
2011-12-01  0:29 ` [PATCH 3/3] ARM: msm: Remove cpu_is test for msm7201 soc David Brown
2011-12-01 15:17 ` [PATCH 1/3] ARM: msm: Remove MSM7x00 support Daniel Walker
2011-12-01 18:17   ` David Brown
2011-12-01 18:39     ` Daniel Walker
2011-12-01 19:27       ` David Brown
2011-12-01 19:33         ` Daniel Walker
2011-12-01 19:43           ` David Brown
2011-12-01 19:53             ` Daniel Walker
2011-12-01 20:17               ` David Brown
2011-12-01 20:19             ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-12-01 20:25               ` Daniel Walker
2011-12-01 20:35                 ` Russell King - ARM Linux [this message]
2011-12-01 20:49                   ` Daniel Walker
2011-12-01 21:03                     ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-12-01 21:34                       ` Daniel Walker
2011-12-01 20:26               ` David Brown
2011-12-01 20:32                 ` Daniel Walker
2011-12-02 13:17                 ` Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli
2011-12-02 15:26                   ` David Brown

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