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=-3.8 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS 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 A1070C433DB for ; Fri, 22 Jan 2021 17:01:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D924239D4 for ; Fri, 22 Jan 2021 17:01:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1729399AbhAVRBr (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Jan 2021 12:01:47 -0500 Received: from mslow2.mail.gandi.net ([217.70.178.242]:39182 "EHLO mslow2.mail.gandi.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1729504AbhAVRBf (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Jan 2021 12:01:35 -0500 Received: from relay10.mail.gandi.net (unknown [217.70.178.230]) by mslow2.mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0006E3B914E for ; Fri, 22 Jan 2021 16:49:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (lfbn-lyo-1-13-140.w86-202.abo.wanadoo.fr [86.202.109.140]) (Authenticated sender: alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com) by relay10.mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 73BD724000E; Fri, 22 Jan 2021 16:47:10 +0000 (UTC) Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2021 17:47:10 +0100 From: Alexandre Belloni To: Andy Shevchenko Cc: Alessandro Zummo , linux-rtc@vger.kernel.org, Linus Walleij Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] rtc: mrst: Remove driver for deprecated platform Message-ID: <20210122164710.GH1196852@piout.net> References: <20210122122226.38334-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-rtc@vger.kernel.org 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