From: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>
To: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>,
linux-rtc@vger.kernel.org,
Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] rtc: mrst: Remove driver for deprecated platform
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2021 17:47:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210122164710.GH1196852@piout.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YArxN6KF0R1Q8gMu@smile.fi.intel.com>
On 22/01/2021 17:37:27+0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 02:22:26PM +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 Due to above and to reduce a burden of supporting outdated drivers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 we remove the support of outdated platforms completely.
>
> Dear maintainers, the idea is to get ack from you, so we can collect these
> clean up patches in less amount of trees to reduce burden of the merging all
> together w/o build conflicts.
>
Well, this info should have been in the initial patch ;)
--
Alexandre Belloni, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-22 17:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-22 12:22 [PATCH v1] rtc: mrst: Remove driver for deprecated platform Andy Shevchenko
2021-01-22 15:37 ` Andy Shevchenko
2021-01-22 16:47 ` Alexandre Belloni [this message]
2021-01-22 16:49 ` Alexandre Belloni
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