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Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2026 10:24:11 -0700
From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>,
	Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
	Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>,
	Oliver Upton <oupton@kernel.org>,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
	Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>, Linus Walleij <linusw@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/12] arm64: Remove unused big-endian support
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On Tue, Aug 11, 2026 at 05:11:47PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> I had not expected the removal to come this soon, but I'm not
> complaining about that. I assume you are planning this for 7.4,
> leaving 7.3-LTS to still have the code in case someone wants to
> still use it, right?

It's already been BROKEN (and thus is dead code) since v6.18.  Some of
that dead code has already been removed.  Other code never actually
worked correctly on big endian in the first place and no one ever cared.

Acked-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>

- Eric