Re: [PATCH v2 00/10] sh: remove NUMA and SPARSEMEM support

From: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz

Date: Sun Jun 14 2026 - 08:32:43 EST


Hi Mike,

On Sun, 2026-06-14 at 13:33 +0300, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 09, 2026 at 09:21:37AM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> > Hi Mike,
> >
> > On Wed, 2026-06-03 at 18:32 +0300, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> > > On Mon, May 18, 2026 at 02:05:39PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> > > > Hi Mike,
> > > >
> > > > On Mon, 2026-05-18 at 14:43 +0300, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> > > > > Gentle ping?
> > > >
> > > > It's on my TODO list for this week!
> > >
> > > It's sad to see this being dragged since mid April (if we count v1 and
> > > there were really minor changes in v2).
> >
> > I apologize. I am doing the maintenance as a hobby in my free time, it's
> > not my primary job and it can sometimes take me a bit longer to take up
> > changes.
> >
> > > If you don't have time to take care of that, just say so and we'll take
> > > this via one of the mm trees in the next cycle.
> >
> > It should be better this week. I've been recently busy with CVE fixes during
> > my dayjob and the workload was extremely high.
> >
> > I am not going to let this slip, don't worry. It's just been a bit too much
> > stress the past weeks due to the AI CVE reporting.
>
> I understand that this is a hobby for you and there are a day job and other
> obligations and you don't have time for timely responses for arch/sh
> patches.
>
> I just don't understand why do you insist on taking this via sh tree given
> you don't have the resources to timely deal with the patches.

Because I want to learn something in the process and also perform some basic
testing where possible. I know it takes longer and I can only ask for some
patience, but I will take are of it.

I will get these changes landed for 7.2, promised.

> This set can perfectly go via mm tree as it cleanups a memory management
> feature that should not have been added to sh at the first place.

I appreciate your efforts in cleaning up arch/sh, so I don't want to stress
your patience too much. Again, I will get this into 7.2. Don't worry!

Adrian

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