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Date:   Thu, 20 Oct 2022 22:35:11 +0300
From:   Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@iki.fi>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 13/17] ARM: omap1: remove unused board files
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Hi,

On Thu, Oct 20, 2022 at 09:11:11AM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 19, 2022, at 19:15, Aaro Koskinen wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 19, 2022 at 05:03:35PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> >> All board support that was marked as 'unused' earlier can
> >> now be removed, leaving the five machines that that still
> >> had someone using them in 2022, or that are supported in
> >> qemu.
> > [...]
> >>  config OMAP_OSK_MISTRAL
> >>  	bool "Mistral QVGA board Support"
> >>  	depends on MACH_OMAP_OSK
> >> -	depends on UNUSED_BOARD_FILES
> >>  	help
> >>  	  The OSK supports an optional add-on board with a Quarter-VGA
> >>  	  touchscreen, PDA-ish buttons, a resume button, bicolor LED,
> >>  	  and camera connector.  Say Y here if you have this board.
> >
> > Shouldn't this go away as well?
> 
> No, this one was incorrectly annotated, it's not actually
> a board but it's an option for the OSK board that is not
> getting removed. I considered making a separate patch
> for removing the dependency, but that didn't seem worth it.

OK. For the record, I don't think anyone has this add-on board anymore,
and it has probably never been tested with the mainline kernel, so
it's likely in the "dead code" category... Maybe it could be changed to
"BROKEN", then the related OSK LCD panel stuff could be deleted later
on too.

A.