linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/4] ARM: footbridge: remove leftover from personal-server

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Message-ID: <YwYBw/77TiZjuCub@shell.armlinux.org.uk>
Date:   Wed, 24 Aug 2022 11:47:31 +0100
From:   "Russell King (Oracle)" <linux@...linux.org.uk>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...nel.org>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
        Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] ARM: footbridge: remove leftover from personal-server

On Wed, Aug 24, 2022 at 12:37:15PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 21, 2022 at 7:55 AM Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Aug 18, 2022 at 11:15:48PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > > From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
> > >
> > > The machine was removed a while ago, and the checks are
> > > now useless.
> >
> > Curious, should entries for removed machines be kept in the mach-types
> > file?  Because that makes it really easy to leave dead code like this
> > around.
> 
> A long time ago it was common to add the entries in mach-types before
> the Kconfig symbol got merged, an  Russell just updated the list
> periodically to drop stale entries. As we remove most board files in
> a coming release, we should probably do this as part of the bigger
> cleanup then.

The scripting I have for it doesn't understand "board was removed from
the kernel" so if I ever run the script in the future (unlikely) it'll
get re-added.

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