Re: [PATCH 0/7] Drop support for Renesys H8/300 architecture

[David Miller]

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 09:55:50 -0700

> On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 09:40:35AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
>> H8/300 has been dead for several years, the kernel for it has
>> not compiled for ages, and recent versions of gcc for it are broken.
>> It is time to drop support for it.
>> 
>> Yes, I understand it is not that simple to drop an architecture,
>> and it may need some discussion, but someone has to put a stake
>> into the ground. Keeping a virtually dead architecture on life support
>> takes resources which are better spent elsewhere.
> 
> If this doesn't build, and no one is using it anymore, I agree, it
> should be removed.  If someone wants to revive it, 'git revert' works
> just fine.
> 
> You can put my:
> 
> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> on these patches, unless someone steps up to be the active maintainer of
> the arch and gets it building/working again.

I completely agree with Greg, and for the IDE and networking bits:

Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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