[PATCH 2/4] ARM: footbridge: remove leftover from personal-server

Arnd Bergmann arnd at kernel.org
Wed Aug 24 03:37:15 PDT 2022


On Sun, Aug 21, 2022 at 7:55 AM Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Aug 18, 2022 at 11:15:48PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
> >
> > The machine was removed a while ago, and the checks are
> > now useless.
>
> Curious, should entries for removed machines be kept in the mach-types
> file?  Because that makes it really easy to leave dead code like this
> around.

A long time ago it was common to add the entries in mach-types before
the Kconfig symbol got merged, an  Russell just updated the list
periodically to drop stale entries. As we remove most board files in
a coming release, we should probably do this as part of the bigger
cleanup then.

        Arnd



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