Re: [PATCH 00/13] Remove metag architecture

[James Hogan]

On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 11:26:58AM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 12:38 AM, James Hogan <jhogan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > So lets call it a day and drop the Meta architecture port from the
> > kernel. RIP Meta.
> 
> Since I brought up the architecture removal independently, I could
> pick this up into a git tree that also has the removal of some of the
> other architectures.
> 
> I see your tree is part of linux-next, so you could also just put it
> in there and send a pull request at the merge window if you prefer.
> 
> The only real reason I see for a shared git tree would be to avoid
> conflicts when we touch the same Kconfig files or #ifdefs in driver,
> but Meta only appears in
> 
> config FRAME_POINTER
>         bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers"
>         depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && \
>                 (CRIS || M68K || FRV || UML || \
>                  SUPERH || BLACKFIN || MN10300 || METAG) || \
>                 ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
> 
> and
> 
> include/trace/events/mmflags.h:#elif defined(CONFIG_PARISC) ||
> defined(CONFIG_METAG) || defined(CONFIG_IA64)
> 
> so there is little risk.

I'm happy to put v2 in linux-next now (only patch 4 has changed, I just
sent an updated version), and send you a pull request early next week so
you can take it from there. The patches can't be directly applied with
git-am anyway thanks to the -D option to make them more concise.

Sound okay?

Thanks
James

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