From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752943AbeCPBaw (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Mar 2018 21:30:52 -0400 Received: from alum-mailsec-scanner-8.mit.edu ([18.7.68.20]:42492 "EHLO alum-mailsec-scanner-8.mit.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751497AbeCPBau (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Mar 2018 21:30:50 -0400 X-AuditID: 12074414-ebbff70000000aea-be-5aab1ca38e13 Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/16] arch: remove tile port To: Arnd Bergmann , linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz References: <20180314143529.1456168-1-arnd@arndb.de> <20180314143656.1495602-1-arnd@arndb.de> <20180314143656.1495602-6-arnd@arndb.de> From: Chris Metcalf Message-ID: <2f2e0cd4-02ca-0e01-7003-e519a7706ee4@alum.mit.edu> Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2018 21:23:46 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20180314143656.1495602-6-arnd@arndb.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Language: en-US X-Brightmail-Tracker: H4sIAAAAAAAAA+NgFprEKsWRmVeSWpSXmKPExsUixO6iqLtYZnWUwZYzGhZ/Jx1jt5j9Xtmi Y9dXFovLu+awObB4/P41idHj4LlzjB6fN8kFMEdx2aSk5mSWpRbp2yVwZez+/Y+1YC93Rc/a x2wNjFs4uxg5OSQETCTunTjF1MXIxSEksINJYt+OH4wQzk0miXXLz7KAVAkLGEq8638JVMXB ISJgK3Hpvy9ImFkgWeLyv72sEPVdjBI77/eygSTYBLQk7uzsYwWxeQXsJZZMOMEOYrMIqEoc unGWGcQWFYiVaHn4jAmiRlDi5MwnYLs4BUwlTm9+ygSxwExi3uaHzBC2vETz1tlQtrjErSfz mSYwCsxC0j4LScssJC2zkLQsYGRZxSiXmFOaq5ubmJlTnJqsW5ycmJeXWqRroZebWaKXmlK6 iRES3CI7GI+clDvEKMDBqMTDm9G8KkqINbGsuDL3EKMkB5OSKG/Ka6AQX1J+SmVGYnFGfFFp TmrxIUYJDmYlEV7/Z0A53pTEyqrUonyYlDQHi5I477fF6n5CAumJJanZqakFqUUwWRkODiUJ XhlgFAsJFqWmp1akZeaUIKSZODhBhvMADS+WBqrhLS5IzC3OTIfIn2LU5bjx4nUbsxBLXn5e qpQ47xuQIgGQoozSPLg5sKT0ilEc6C1hXlGQKh5gQoOb9ApoCRPQksxtK0CWlCQipKQaGCWO 2RTOdtnI2Lxkm3hfeubXx54u4j7Z7TUNR3r+pC00vjf56Kz84lPlZnPiQiQd/s87zLtyddw2 t5M7J00q4Op5y/eJk5PHh2P/X64WhvWHOEO/F9xLv/a+WevdmiiRI9nbjHZ+S0ycahqtZ9G4 sUgoSmjDaunfB+pPHprnti73YqqXs9f/CiWW4oxEQy3mouJEAD3kF44lAwAA Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 3/14/2018 10:36 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > The Tile architecture port was added by Chris Metcalf in 2010, and > maintained until early 2018 when he orphaned it due to his departure > from Mellanox, and nobody else stepped up to maintain it. The product > line is still around in the form of the BlueField SoC, but no longer > uses the Tile architecture. > > There are also still products for sale with Tile-GX SoCs, notably the > Mikrotik CCR router family. The products all use old (linux-3.3) kernels > with lots of patches and won't be upgraded by their manufacturers. There > have been efforts to port both OpenWRT and Debian to these, but both > projects have stalled and are very unlikely to be continued in the future. > > Given that we are reasonably sure that nobody is still using the port > with an upstream kernel any more, it seems better to remove it now while > the port is in a good shape than to let it bitrot for a few years first. Arnd, thanks for dealing with this. There are a number of tile-specific driver files that are mostly called out in the MAINTAINERS file.  I would expect you should also delete those. -F:    drivers/char/tile-srom.c -F:    drivers/edac/tile_edac.c -F:    drivers/net/ethernet/tile/ -F:    drivers/rtc/rtc-tile.c -F:    drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_tile.c -F:    drivers/tty/serial/tilegx.c -F:    drivers/usb/host/*-tilegx.c -F:    include/linux/usb/tilegx.h Chris