From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754879AbXGSKk7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jul 2007 06:40:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755248AbXGSKkr (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jul 2007 06:40:47 -0400 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:50275 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754879AbXGSKkq (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jul 2007 06:40:46 -0400 Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 11:45:29 +0100 From: Alan Cox To: Andi Kleen Cc: bunk@stusta.de, ak@suse.de, patches@x86-64.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] [58/58] x86: remove support for the Rise CPU Message-ID: <20070719114529.6fcd4022@the-village.bc.nu> In-Reply-To: <20070719095545.8AB5914E06@wotan.suse.de> References: <200707191154.642492000@suse.de> <20070719095545.8AB5914E06@wotan.suse.de> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.1 (GTK+ 2.10.8; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Organization: Red Hat UK Cyf., Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SL4 1TE, Y Deyrnas Gyfunol. Cofrestrwyd yng Nghymru a Lloegr o'r rhif cofrestru 3798903 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Googling for the printk string "CPU: Rise iDragon" didn't find any dmesg > available online. > > If it turns out that against all expectations there are actually users > reverting this patch would be easy. > > This patch will make the kernel images smaller by a few bytes for all > i386 users. Why bother. Its a tiny tiny amount of code and it requires no maintenance so it achieves nothing by leaving it alone and risks (slight I admit) breaking someones box. Alan