linux-kernel - Re: mach-shmobile: FIXME message in file pm-sh732.c

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Date:	Fri, 11 Jul 2014 11:56:00 -0400
From:	Nick Krause <xerofoify@...il.com>
To:	Simon Horman <horms@...ge.net.au>
Cc:	Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@...il.com>,
	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	linux-sh@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: mach-shmobile: FIXME message in file pm-sh732.c

On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 11:44 AM, Simon Horman <horms@...ge.net.au> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 11:24:12AM -0400, Nick Krause wrote:
>> On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 5:34 AM, Simon Horman <horms@...ge.net.au> wrote:
>> > On Fri, Jul 04, 2014 at 12:34:58AM -0400, Nick Krause wrote:
>> >> While searching for FIX ME messages when using cscope on the latest kernels I
>> >> get a message on 68 of this file and was wondering what I need to define SMFRAM
>> >> as in order for it to point to things needed to support this portion
>> >> of the  hardware.
>> >
>> > Hi Nick,
>> >
>> > while I don't have a technical answer to your question I do believe
>> > that the code in question will be removed in the not too distant future
>> > along with support for the sh7372 SoC.
>>
>> Why are we removing support for this SoC? Is there any reason?
>
> Because it is rather old hardware which is most likely not used against
> mainline by anyone other than those maintaining the code and moving it over
> to use multiplatform, CCF, and the like appears to be more work thank it is
> worth.

That's fine, you can remove it then. I was just curious.
Cheers Nick
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