linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: update simple firmware interface (SFI) section entry

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.21.1902192140480.20286@felia>
Date:   Tue, 19 Feb 2019 21:44:13 +0100 (CET)
From:   Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@...il.com>
To:     Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>
cc:     Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@...il.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>,
        Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@...ux.intel.com>, X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: update simple firmware interface (SFI)
 section entry



On Tue, 19 Feb 2019, Len Brown wrote:

> Acked-by: Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>
> 
> Indeed, Lukas, I believe that all of the systems that will ship with
> SFI have shipped.
> It is probably time to delete this code from the kernel.
>

Len, your answer suggests that we should actually set the status to 
Obsolete and probably plan to delete it in the kernel soonish.

If you can confirm that, I will provide a PATCH v2.

Lukas