From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.3 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN,FREEMAIL_FROM,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,NICE_REPLY_A,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2AC3C433E0 for ; Tue, 12 Jan 2021 08:25:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2FE622D2C for ; Tue, 12 Jan 2021 08:25:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S2405042AbhALIZG (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Jan 2021 03:25:06 -0500 Received: from smtp6-g21.free.fr ([212.27.42.6]:61058 "EHLO smtp6-g21.free.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1728262AbhALIZG (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Jan 2021 03:25:06 -0500 Received: from [192.168.1.91] (unknown [77.207.133.132]) (Authenticated sender: marc.w.gonzalez) by smtp6-g21.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id F262F7802C2; Tue, 12 Jan 2021 09:23:38 +0100 (CET) Subject: Re: Old platforms: bring out your dead To: Arnd Bergmann , Mans Rullgard Cc: LKML , Linux ARM References: <034ff035-9c58-336d-c8f5-80bf40ad2fc1@free.fr> From: Marc Gonzalez Message-ID: <2d643ebc-09af-a809-eb3f-2aec8ecee501@free.fr> Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2021 09:23:38 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.10.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 11/01/2021 22:50, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Mon, Jan 11, 2021 at 6:29 PM Måns Rullgård wrote: > >> Marc Gonzalez writes: >> >>> Waiting for his take on the matter. >>> >>> I can point out some device-specific drivers that would become >>> useless if tango support were dropped. >> >> I have tango3 and tango4 boards. Can't say I'm using them for anything, >> though. With the entire platform dead at the vendor level, removal >> seems like a reasonable choice. > > Ok, thanks for confirming. It's not just the platform that's dead. The whole company has been liquidated :( (The Z-Wave stuff lives on inside Silicon Labs) https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/sigma-designs-announces-plan-for-final-distribution-of-0-285-per-share-to-shareholders-in-connection-with-its-voluntary-plan-of-liquidation-and-dissolution-301099186.html The following drivers are tango-specific, and it might make sense to remove them along with the platform? drivers/watchdog/tangox_wdt.c drivers/media/rc/tango-ir.c drivers/media/rc/keymaps/rc-tango.c drivers/irqchip/irq-tango.c drivers/clk/clk-tango4.c drivers/pci/controller/pcie-tango.c drivers/thermal/tango_thermal.c drivers/mtd/nand/raw/tango_nand.c drivers/cpufreq/tango-cpufreq.c drivers/clocksource/timer-tango-xtal.c Mans, do you agree? Regards.