Scheduling (unused) board file removal for linux-6.x

Krzysztof Kozlowski krzk at kernel.org
Thu Jun 30 02:22:18 PDT 2022


On 30/06/2022 11:08, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 30, 2022 at 9:10 AM Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk at kernel.org> wrote:
>> On 29/06/2022 22:42, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>>>
>>> s3c64xx
>>>
>>> There are ten board files, which are currently scheduled for removal in
>>> 2024, along with the DT based boards for this SoC. We can still decide
>>> to throw out some of the board files earlier though, while keeping the
>>> platform around.
>>
>> I would keep all s3c24xx/s3c64xx boards till the platform drop. Removing
>> few boards before platform won't give us huge benefits... and anyway
>> just 1 and 2 years and they all will be gone.
> 
> I think there is benefit in throwing out some unused s3c64xx boards
> even earlier, as this would simplify some treewide cleanups that have to
> touch every board file, and potentially let us drop some peripheral
> device drivers that have no other users and no DT probing.
> 
> Ten boards is of course not a lot, but it's still about a third of the
> board files I have currently marked as sticking around past early
> 2023.

OK, if you have some idea which one could be the candidates.
Unfortunately I cannot provide here inputs - I have no clue which of S3C
boards have users.

Best regards,
Krzysztof



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