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From: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] Drop support for Renesys H8/300 architecture
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 20:46:11 +0200
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Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-watchdog@vger.kernel.org,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@huawei.com>,
	David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
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Hi Guenter,

> 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.

Agree. You may add my Acked-by.
How do you plan to get this upstream? Do I need to take the watchdog in my tree or do you plan to keep the set of patches together in one tree?

Kind regards,
Wim.