[PATCH v2 07/19] ARM: update DEPRECATED_PARAM_STRUCT removal timeline
Ethan Nelson-Moore
enelsonmoore at gmail.com
Wed Jul 1 17:54:57 PDT 2026
Hi, Arnd,
On Wed, Jul 1, 2026 at 2:25 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd at kernel.org> 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?
Ethan
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