From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] Drop support for Renesys H8/300 architecture Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 14:30:20 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <20130830.143020.1246803952303746167.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1377880842-6835-1-git-send-email-linux@roeck-us.net> <20130830165550.GA8151@kroah.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux@roeck-us.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-watchdog@vger.kernel.org, wim@iguana.be, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, eparis@redhat.com, jiang.liu@huawei.com, dhowells@redhat.com, tglx@linutronix.de, sfr@canb.auug.org.au, torvalds@linux-foundation.org To: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20130830165550.GA8151@kroah.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org From: Greg Kroah-Hartman Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 09:55:50 -0700 > On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 09:40:35AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote: >> H8/300 has been dead for several years, the kernel for it has >> not compiled for ages, and recent versions of gcc for it are broken. >> It is time to drop support for it. >> >> Yes, I understand it is not that simple to drop an architecture, >> and it may need some discussion, but someone has to put a stake >> into the ground. Keeping a virtually dead architecture on life support >> takes resources which are better spent elsewhere. > > If this doesn't build, and no one is using it anymore, I agree, it > should be removed. If someone wants to revive it, 'git revert' works > just fine. > > You can put my: > > Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman > > on these patches, unless someone steps up to be the active maintainer of > the arch and gets it building/working again. I completely agree with Greg, and for the IDE and networking bits: Acked-by: David S. Miller