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From: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] mtd: nand: Cleanup/rework the atmel_nand driver
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On 24/02/2017 at 09:14:30 +0100, Hans-Christian Noren Egtvedt wrote:
> Around Thu 23 Feb 2017 21:18:13 -0800 or thereabout, Håvard Skinnemoen wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 9:14 AM, Alexandre Belloni
> > <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com> wrote:
> >> On 21/02/2017 at 18:43:35 +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> 
> <snipp>
> 
> >> A few weeks ago, I was telling Boris to let it not build for a while and
> >> then remove it. You already went out of your way to make it work. Again,
> >> feel free to send a patch removing avr32. I can only see a lot of
> >> benefits for the Atmel ARM SoCs and the many cleanups that will follow.
> > 
> > Agree, I can't help but feel that the AVR32 support is doing more harm
> > than good at this point.
> 
> I also agree on this, I can relate to Nicolas (and Atmel friends) having to
> always think about the less-maintained AVR32 parts when improving drivers.
> 
> >> If nobody complains about the 4.10 breakage, You'll have plenty of time
> >> to remove it for 4.12
> > 
> > I'm fine with that, but I haven't put much effort into keeping it
> > alive lately. If Hans-Christian agrees, I'm willing to post a patch to
> > remove it, or ack someone else's patch.
> 
> Then lets plan this for 4.12, either you Håvard whip up a patch or I can
> eventually do it.
> 
> I can push it through the linux-avr32 git tree on kernel.org.
> 

I think think it is fair to have one of you two prepare the patch. It is
definitively a sad decision :( but it will help us immensely! Thank you!

-- 
Alexandre Belloni, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
http://free-electrons.com