46dcfc8 (ARM: Update mach-types) removes used machine types

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Mon Aug 22 09:32:42 EDT 2011


On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 03:30:41PM +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:
> On Monday, August 22, 2011 03:27:19 PM Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 03:16:00PM +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:
> > > On Monday, August 22, 2011 03:01:19 PM Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > > > For further reading, see:
> > > > http://lists.arm.linux.org.uk/lurker/message/20110815.085325.ae6ee07d.e
> > > > n.ht ml
> > > 
> > > Russell, calm down please.
> > > 
> > > Maybe it'd be better to just email the people with broken stuff, then
> > > wait ... if they don't reply in a week (two weeks?) then remove their
> > > stuff. And make that a policy.
> > > 
> > > What do you think ?
> > 
> > Who do I email?  Which entries are causing problems?  That's the whole
> > bloody point.
> 
> Isn't the email in your database? You can't just script that ?
> 
> > 
> > There's just far too much of it.  The amount of effort required to sort
> > through this file each time it needs to be updated has become *excessive*.
> > The amount of effort required to go through the file and identify which
> > entries are broken is *excessive*.  The amount of effort required to
> > find who to email is *excessive*.
> 
> Why not write a script for that ?

No, I don't have the time at present.



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