linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] mtd: nand: Cleanup/rework the atmel

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Message-ID: <CAHp75VcKjYYAw8gw8yYXrd-vzZo50WOQ06AzPx+0g9Zakzjm-w@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 21 Feb 2017 18:09:09 +0200
From:   Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
To:     Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@...e-electrons.com>
Cc:     Hans-Christian Egtvedt <egtvedt@...fundet.no>,
        Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@...e-electrons.com>,
        Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>,
        "open list:MEMORY TECHNOLOGY..." <linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org>,
        Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@...el.com>,
        Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@...il.com>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Wenyou Yang <wenyou.yang@...el.com>,
        Josh Wu <rainyfeeling@...look.com>,
        David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
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        Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@...il.com>,
        Cyrille Pitchen <cyrille.pitchen@...el.com>,
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        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Ian Campbell <ijc+devicetree@...lion.org.uk>,
        Kumar Gala <galak@...eaurora.org>,
        devicetree <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] mtd: nand: Cleanup/rework the atmel_nand driver

On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 1:27 PM, Alexandre Belloni
<alexandre.belloni@...e-electrons.com> wrote:
> (adding Hans-Christian)
>
> On 21/02/2017 at 13:02:21 +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
>> Abusing platform data with pointers is also not welcome.
>>
>> > (in this case, avr32).
>>
>> It's dead de facto.
>>
>> When last time did you compile kernel for it? What was the version of kernel?
>> Did it get successfully?
>>
>
> v4.10-rc3 was building successfully but had some issues in the network
> code.

Newer kernel doesn't link...

>> When are we going to remove avr32 support from kernel completely?

> Ask that to the avr32 maintainers. It still builds and is still booted
> by some people. And that actually seems to be you as you reported a bug
> we introduced in 4.3. I don't think we had any other report after that.

https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9505727/

After that I gave up on it. Next time I will escalate directly to
Linus. It's a complete necrophilia. I spent already enough time to
look at that code. It brings now more burden than supports someone
somewhere.

> It can be frustrating at times to handle that platform but if it is
> working for someone, I don't see why we would remove it.

How it's working if it's not linked?

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko