From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754908AbeDYP0l (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Apr 2018 11:26:41 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([198.137.202.133]:56008 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754612AbeDYP0j (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Apr 2018 11:26:39 -0400 Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 08:26:36 -0700 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Mauro Carvalho Chehab , Hans Verkuil , Arvind Yadav , mjpeg-users@lists.sourceforge.net, Linux Media Mailing List , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH] media: zoran: move to dma-mapping interface Message-ID: <20180425152636.GC27076@infradead.org> References: <20180424204158.2764095-1-arnd@arndb.de> <20180425061537.GA23383@infradead.org> <20180425072138.GA16375@infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.9.2 (2017-12-15) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org. See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 01:15:18PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > That thought had occurred to me as well. I removed the oldest ISDN > drivers already some years ago, and the OSS sound drivers > got removed as well, and comedi got converted to the dma-mapping > interfaces, so there isn't much left at all now. This is what we > have as of v4.17-rc1: Yes, I've been looking at various grotty old bits to purge. Usually I've been looking for some non-tree wide patches and CCed the last active people to see if they care. In a few cases people do, but most often no one does. > My feeling is that we want to keep most of the arch specific > ones, in particular removing the m68k drivers would break > a whole class of machines. For the arch specific ones it would good to just ping the relevant maintainers. Especially m68k and parisc folks seems to be very responsive.