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Sverdlin" , Alexandre Belloni , Alexandre Torgue , Andrew Lunn , Ard Biesheuvel , Claudiu Beznea , Daniel Mack , Frank Li , Gregory Clement , Haojian Zhuang , "Jeremy J. Peper" , Kristoffer Ericson , Krzysztof Kozlowski , Linus Walleij , Mark Brown , Marc Zyngier , Mike Rapoport , Nicolas Ferre , Patrice Chotard , Ralph Siemsen , Robert Jarzmik , Russell King , Sascha Hauer , Sebastian Hesselbarth , Stefan Agner , Stefan Wiehler , Tony Lindgren , Vladimir Zapolskiy , Will Deacon Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 07/19] ARM: update DEPRECATED_PARAM_STRUCT removal timeline Message-ID: References: <20260701212353.2196041-1-arnd@kernel.org> <20260701212353.2196041-8-arnd@kernel.org> <46f76624-ba35-427d-8a60-ec0fe39e5b8c@app.fastmail.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <46f76624-ba35-427d-8a60-ec0fe39e5b8c@app.fastmail.com> X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by desiato.infradead.org. See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html On Thu, Jul 02, 2026 at 07:36:02AM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: >On Thu, Jul 2, 2026, at 02:54, Ethan Nelson-Moore wrote: >> Hi, Arnd, >> >> On Wed, Jul 1, 2026 at 2:25 PM Arnd Bergmann wrote: >>> This configuration option is for the older boot method that preceeded >>> ATAGS. This was scheduled for removal back in 2001, but the removal >>> never happened, presumably because nobody cared enough to actually do it, >>> not because there are any users left. >> >> Only netwinder_defconfig selects this option. Do the most recent >> NetWinder firmware versions actually need it? (LinusW, do you know >> this?) If not, can't we just drop it entirely? Support for ATAG was added in firmware v2.0.6 in roughly Jan 1999, meanwhile the most recent firmware is v2.3.3 (still 20+ years old). It is quite safe to disable support for the older parameter method. >If all StrongARM platforms are on the way out after the LTS kernel, >I don't see a need to remove this any earlier, even if the chance >that it's still needed is low. Also agree with this, might as well remove it all in one go. Regards, Ralph