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Sverdlin" , "Alexandre Belloni" , "Alexandre Torgue" , "Andrew Lunn" , "Ard Biesheuvel" , "Claudiu Beznea" , "Daniel Mack" , "Frank Li" , "Gregory Clement" , "Haojian Zhuang" , "Jeremy J. Peper" , "Kristoffer Ericson" , "Krzysztof Kozlowski" , "Linus Walleij" , "Mark Brown" , "Marc Zyngier" , "Mike Rapoport" , "Nicolas Ferre" , "Patrice Chotard" , "Ralph Siemsen" , "Robert Jarzmik" , "Russell King" , "Sascha Hauer" , "Sebastian Hesselbarth" , "Stefan Agner" , "Stefan Wiehler" , "Tony Lindgren" , "Vladimir Zapolskiy" , "Will Deacon" Message-Id: <46f76624-ba35-427d-8a60-ec0fe39e5b8c@app.fastmail.com> In-Reply-To: References: <20260701212353.2196041-1-arnd@kernel.org> <20260701212353.2196041-8-arnd@kernel.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 07/19] ARM: update DEPRECATED_PARAM_STRUCT removal timeline Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Jul 2, 2026, at 02:54, Ethan Nelson-Moore wrote: > Hi, Arnd, > > On Wed, Jul 1, 2026 at 2:25=E2=80=AFPM Arnd Bergmann = wrote: >> This configuration option is for the older boot method that preceeded >> ATAGS. This was scheduled for removal back in 2001, but the removal >> never happened, presumably because nobody cared enough to actually do= it, >> not because there are any users left. > > Only netwinder_defconfig selects this option. Do the most recent > NetWinder firmware versions actually need it? (LinusW, do you know > this?) If not, can't we just drop it entirely? If all StrongARM platforms are on the way out after the LTS kernel, I don't see a need to remove this any earlier, even if the chance that it's still needed is low. Arnd