linux-kernel - Re: [LTP] [PATCH 00/36] Remove UCLINUX from LTP

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Message-ID: <ZZUVCr2AZ6clmYIl@rei>
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2024 09:04:26 +0100
From: Cyril Hrubis <chrubis@...e.cz>
To: Petr Vorel <pvorel@...e.cz>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
	Christophe Lyon <christophe.lyon@...aro.org>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-m68k@...ts.linux-m68k.org,
	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
	John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@...sik.fu-berlin.de>,
	Greg Ungerer <gerg@...ux-m68k.org>, ltp@...ts.linux.it
Subject: Re: [LTP] [PATCH 00/36] Remove UCLINUX from LTP

Hi!
> > UCLINUX is broken in LTP and nobody really cares. Actually I dare to
> > say UCLINUX is dead. Therefore I prepared patchset to remove UCLINUX
> > from LTP. We have been actively removing UCLINUX from LTP during rewrite
> > tests to new LTP API. This removes the rest from the old tests (which
> > will be sooner or later rewritten to new API).
> > 
> > Because the patchset is quite big, I did not want to send it to mailing
> > lists (but I can do it if you want).
> 
> I agree that this should be done, but I'm not sure if we want to get
> this in before the January release. I guess that such change would be
> safer to merge just after the release so that we have a few months to
> actually catch possible problems.

Looking at the actuall changes it does not look awfuly complex, so maybe
we can try to merge it before the pre-release testing and hopefully
things will not break badly.

-- 
Cyril Hrubis
chrubis@...e.cz