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From:   Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>
Date:   Sat, 9 Jan 2021 23:04:52 +0100
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Subject: Re: Old platforms: bring out your dead
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On Sat, Jan 9, 2021 at 12:32 AM Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 8 Jan 2021 23:55:06 +0100
> Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> > * h8300: Steven Rostedt has repeatedly asked about it to be removed
> >    or fixed in 2020 with no reply. This was killed before in 2013, added back
> >    in 2015 but has been mostly stale again since 2016
>
> "I'm not dead yet!", "You're not fooling anyone!"
>
> The patch that I sent that fixes a critical bug in the architecture
> (irq disabling does no compiler barriers!), has been ignored since
> September 18th.
>
>   https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200918152507.711865ce@gandalf.local.home/
>
> I'm thinking to kill it and see if that causes any complaints.

I'm happy to queue the patches in my asm-generic tree if you send them
my way. Then they can spend some more time in linux-next and give
possible users one last chance to speak up.

       Arnd