linux-kernel - Re: [RESEND PATCH] blackfin: defconfig: Cleanup from old Kconfig options

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Message-ID: <20171227114426.dtl4cremzupqiw4u@angband.pl>
Date:   Wed, 27 Dec 2017 12:44:26 +0100
From:   Adam Borowski <kilobyte@...band.pl>
To:     Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
Cc:     Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@...nel.org>,
        Steven Miao <realmz6@...il.com>,
        adi-buildroot-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Sebastian Reichel <sre@...nel.org>,
        Sylvain Lemieux <slemieux.tyco@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [RESEND PATCH] blackfin: defconfig: Cleanup from old Kconfig
 options

On Wed, Dec 27, 2017 at 12:29:33PM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 26, 2017 at 2:30 PM, Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@...nel.org> wrote:
> 
> > Remove old, dead Kconfig options (in order appearing in this commit):
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@...nel.org>
> 
> Acked-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
> 
> This architecture is becoming a burden :/
> 
> Last blackfin pull request was in June 2014 by Steven Miao.

April 2015, actually.  Doesn't change the conclusion, though.

> Steven, what's up with this? I don't mind the arch/blackfin as much
> as the plethora of boardfiles that need to be maintained as soon as
> we change some platform data or so, and it's just a mystery whether
> things really get tested and any of the changes made here since 2014
> are screwing up the blackfin. No ACKs or Tested-by's ever appear.
> 
> Is there active testing of mainline with blackfin?

After multiple pings, I just (two days ago) sent the following:
https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=151421639229901

So even if there's no actual testing, at the very least it'd be good to mark
the architecture as orphaned, so people don't wait for ACKs that never come.


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