linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1] misc: pti: Remove driver for deprecated platform

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Message-ID: <YAq7duW1yE08mSja@kroah.com>
Date:   Fri, 22 Jan 2021 12:48:06 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...nel.org>,
        Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>,
        Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] misc: pti: Remove driver for deprecated platform

On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 01:43:58PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> Intel Moorestown and Medfield are quite old Intel Atom based
> 32-bit platforms, which were in limited use in some Android phones,
> tablets and consumer electronics more than eight years ago.
> 
> There are no bugs or problems ever reported outside from Intel
> for breaking any of that platforms for years. It seems no real
> users exists who run more or less fresh kernel on it. The commit
> 05f4434bc130 ("ASoC: Intel: remove mfld_machine") also in align
> with this theory.
> 
> Due to above and to reduce a burden of supporting outdated drivers
> we remove the support of outdated platforms completely.
> 
> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
> Acked-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>

Nice, I'll gladly take patches to remove code, especially tty line
disciplines!  :)

thanks,

greg k-h