From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org>,
Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>,
Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] misc: pti: Remove driver for deprecated platform
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2021 12:48:06 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YAq7duW1yE08mSja@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210122114358.39299-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 01:43:58PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> Intel Moorestown and Medfield are quite old Intel Atom based
> 32-bit platforms, which were in limited use in some Android phones,
> tablets and consumer electronics more than eight years ago.
>
> There are no bugs or problems ever reported outside from Intel
> for breaking any of that platforms for years. It seems no real
> users exists who run more or less fresh kernel on it. The commit
> 05f4434bc130 ("ASoC: Intel: remove mfld_machine") also in align
> with this theory.
>
> Due to above and to reduce a burden of supporting outdated drivers
> we remove the support of outdated platforms completely.
>
> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
> Acked-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Nice, I'll gladly take patches to remove code, especially tty line
disciplines! :)
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-22 11:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-22 11:43 [PATCH v1] misc: pti: Remove driver for deprecated platform Andy Shevchenko
2021-01-22 11:48 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2021-01-22 11:58 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-01-22 12:08 ` Andy Shevchenko
2021-01-22 13:45 ` Alexander Shishkin
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