From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752324AbeCPIM3 (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Mar 2018 04:12:29 -0400 Received: from mail-qk0-f194.google.com ([209.85.220.194]:32889 "EHLO mail-qk0-f194.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750847AbeCPIMZ (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Mar 2018 04:12:25 -0400 X-Google-Smtp-Source: AG47ELuo8SEU4XQETlMm5l94KRg8/rlOFcR0EQO3McqqjbKr4vRsSIJU5Sf9p7FbaWbYMliUv1HNXyfEirzrwF0jUyA= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <2f2e0cd4-02ca-0e01-7003-e519a7706ee4@alum.mit.edu> References: <20180314143529.1456168-1-arnd@arndb.de> <20180314143656.1495602-1-arnd@arndb.de> <20180314143656.1495602-6-arnd@arndb.de> <2f2e0cd4-02ca-0e01-7003-e519a7706ee4@alum.mit.edu> From: Arnd Bergmann Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2018 09:12:24 +0100 X-Google-Sender-Auth: vmGn-eQtB0VxUZyEGIIJv8ZOj4E Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/16] arch: remove tile port To: Chris Metcalf Cc: linux-arch , Linux Kernel Mailing List , John Paul Adrian Glaubitz Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 2:23 AM, Chris Metcalf wrote: > On 3/14/2018 10:36 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: >> >> The Tile architecture port was added by Chris Metcalf in 2010, and >> maintained until early 2018 when he orphaned it due to his departure >> from Mellanox, and nobody else stepped up to maintain it. The product >> line is still around in the form of the BlueField SoC, but no longer >> uses the Tile architecture. >> >> There are also still products for sale with Tile-GX SoCs, notably the >> Mikrotik CCR router family. The products all use old (linux-3.3) kernels >> with lots of patches and won't be upgraded by their manufacturers. There >> have been efforts to port both OpenWRT and Debian to these, but both >> projects have stalled and are very unlikely to be continued in the future. >> >> Given that we are reasonably sure that nobody is still using the port >> with an upstream kernel any more, it seems better to remove it now while >> the port is in a good shape than to let it bitrot for a few years first. > > > Arnd, thanks for dealing with this. > > There are a number of tile-specific driver files that are mostly called out > in the MAINTAINERS file. I would expect you should also delete those. > > > -F: drivers/char/tile-srom.c > -F: drivers/edac/tile_edac.c > -F: drivers/net/ethernet/tile/ > -F: drivers/rtc/rtc-tile.c > -F: drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_tile.c > -F: drivers/tty/serial/tilegx.c > -F: drivers/usb/host/*-tilegx.c > -F: include/linux/usb/tilegx.h Right. I covered all of those in my follow-up driver series, see https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/3/14/579 It's all in linux-next as of yesterday, but thanks for paying attention here. Arnd