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Thu, 20 Jun 2019 16:48:47 +1000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.7.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20190620062126.GA20765@lst.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 20/06/2019 16:21, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 04:20:08PM +1000, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: >> >> >> On 20/06/2019 16:03, Christoph Hellwig wrote: >>> Hi Linus, >>> >>> this goes back to the discussion at last years kernel summit, where >>> we had the discussion on removing code never used by any in-kernel >>> user an no prospects of one. The IBM folks are unfortunately still >>> dragging their feet on the powerpc side. Can we revise this discussion? >>> >>> The use case here is a IBM specific bus for which they only have an >>> out of tree driver that their partner doesn't want to submit for mainline, >>> but keep insisting on keeping the code around (which is also built >>> uncondŃ–tionally for the platform). >> >> >> I personally keep insisting on correct commit logs, i.e. not calling >> working code dead and providing actual reasons for the change. Thanks, > > If that is the only thing you are complaining about I can clarify it > a little of course. Please do so. For me the problem is that if a maintainer decides to pull that then so be it but I want that person to know exactly what is happening. As it is now - the code may seem dead as nobody complains so - I complained. > But it didn't sound like that was the actual > problem. I'd like to see some formal statement in a written form about where we stand in regard to the out-of-tree drivers support^wacceptability (cannot pick the right word). Thanks, -- Alexey