Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755101Ab3HaTk3 (ORCPT ); Sat, 31 Aug 2013 15:40:29 -0400 Received: from zeniv.linux.org.uk ([195.92.253.2]:38405 "EHLO ZenIV.linux.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753727Ab3HaTk2 (ORCPT ); Sat, 31 Aug 2013 15:40:28 -0400 Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2013 20:40:18 +0100 From: Al Viro To: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Guenter Roeck , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Geert Uytterhoeven , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Jiang Liu , Stephen Rothwell , Andrew Morton , "David S. Miller" , Linus Torvalds , Lennox Wu , Chen Liqin , Liqin Chen Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove support for score architecture Message-ID: <20130831194018.GM13318@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> References: <1377914435-24206-1-git-send-email-linux@roeck-us.net> <201308312055.17209.arnd@arndb.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201308312055.17209.arnd@arndb.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1260 Lines: 27 On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 08:55:16PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > Maybe this removal request is a bit early, but architecture support seems > > to have vanished entirely. At the very least this puts interested parties > > (if there are any) on notice. > > AFAICT, this is the least maintained architecture we have at the moment, > and your analysis is correct. > > I think it can be removed unless we the maintainers have plans to become > more active in the future or someone else steps up to maintain the > architecture. AFAICS, the architecture is stillborn - they planned to use it in game consoles and stuff like that, but recession has hit the fan just as they were about to do that. Maintainers are not employed there anymore, gcc had a commit updating maintainer address, but the new address is of form ...+gcc@... and no corresponding update of address in the kernel tree has happened. In such situation I would really hesitate to put the new address into MAINTAINERS... IOW, this is an ex-parrot. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/