linux-kernel - Re: RFC: Remove the arm26 port

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Message-ID: <20070729123119.GA25431@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
Date:	Sun, 29 Jul 2007 13:31:20 +0100
From:	Russell King <rmk+lkml@....linux.org.uk>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>, spyro@....com,
	john@...world.co.uk, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RFC: Remove the arm26 port

On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 01:10:12PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 01:50:40PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > Considering the state of the arm26 port, I do hereby suggest to remove 
> > it from the Linx kernel since it's far from a usable state and doesn't 
> > seem to come back into a usable state.
> > 
> > If anyone wants to work on getting this port back into a usable state in 
> > the forseeable future he should speak up now.
> 
> Yes, please.  This bitrotting code has been in the way for quite bit of
> cross-architecture work I've been doing.
> 
> Btw, there's probably no point to Cc rmk as he's not involved with that
> stinkin' pile.

Definitely - I'd like to see it gone so hopefully I'll stop being copied
on every single janitorial change to it.

(And yes, I've re-enabled mail-followup-to since otherwise I can't
group-reply in mutt to everyone - without it I just get hch in the To:
header and an empty CC: with 'g'.  Tough shit to those anti-mail-followup-to
people.  It's the only thing that actually works.)

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
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