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Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2022 10:43:49 +0200 From: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@...aro.org> To: Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>, Alim Akhtar <alim.akhtar@...sung.com>, Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-samsung-soc@...r.kernel.org Cc: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>, Sylwester Nawrocki <snawrocki@...nel.org>, Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>, Heiko Stuebner <heiko@...ech.de>, Tomasz Figa <tomasz.figa@...il.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] ARM: s3c: mark as deprecated and schedule removal On 07/04/2022 09:23, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote: > The Samsung S3C24xx and S3C64xx platforms are very old designs. S3C2416 > was introduced in 2008 and S3C6410 in 2009/2010. They are not widely > available anymore - out-of-stock on FriendlyArm (one of manufacturers of > boards) and only few specialist stores still offer them for quite a high > price. > > The community around these platforms was not very active, so I suspect > no one really uses them anymore. Maintenance takes precious time so > there is little sense in keeping them alive if there are no real users. > > Let's mark all S3C24xx and S3C64xx platforms as deprecated and mention > possible removal in after 2022 for the first and 2024 for the lattere. > The deprecation message will be as text in Kconfig, build message (not a > warning though) and runtime print error. > > If there are any users, they might respond and postpone the removal. > > Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@...aro.org> > Acked-by: Heiko Stuebner <heiko@...ech.de> > Acked-by: Tomasz Figa <tomasz.figa@...il.com> > > --- > > Changes since v1: > 1. Language: in->for removal. > 2. Don't show pragma with COMPILE_TEST. > 3. Add Acks. > I forgot to add important part in changelog - I moved the s3c64xx removal to 2024. There was an interest from Mark to keep the platform running and it is a newer SoC than s3c64xx. Best regards, Krzysztof
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