[RFC] Sort out S5P SoCs support in mainline

Tomasz Figa tomasz.figa at gmail.com
Fri May 30 12:19:53 PDT 2014



On 30.05.2014 20:50, Kukjin Kim wrote:
> On 05/28/14 20:09, Tomasz Figa wrote:
>> On 28.05.2014 13:04, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>>> On Wednesday 28 May 2014 19:41:41 Kukjin Kim wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> I'm wondering who need to support following SoCs/boards in mainline.
>>>>
>>>> * S5P64X0/SMDK6440 and SMDK6450
>>>> * S5PC100/SMDKC100
>>>>
>>>> If nobody is using them, how about to remove them from mainline?
>>>
>>> I talked about this with Tomasz Figa before, he also thinks they can
>>> be removed.
>>> I don't see any reason to keep them myself, and will apply a patch to
>>> remove
>>> them. Of course, if later somebody comes around who does need them,
>>> we can
>>> revert the patch to bring them back.
> 
> Yeah, agreed.
> 
>>
>> Or better, if later somebody comes around who does need them, we can add
>> them properly, using Device Tree and existing generic code.
>>
> Of course.
> 
>> Anyway, for removal of both s5p64x0 and s5pc100:
>>
>> Acked-by: Tomasz Figa<t.figa at samsung.com>
>>
>> Actually I have played a bit with the code to see how much can be
>> removed and ended up with following branch:
>>
>> https://github.com/tom3q/linux.git v3.17-cleanup
>>
>> Feel free to do _whatever_ you want with patches there.
>>
> OK, thanks.
> 
> Let me remove them from mainline when 3.16-rc1 is released...

Alright.

I have a series to convert s5pv210 to DT-only waiting to be sent as soon
as 3.16-rc1 is released, but if you remove those two first, I should be
able to simplify several things, so I'll wait.

Best regards,
Tomasz



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