Re: [PATCH v1] misc: pti: Remove driver for deprecated platform

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 12:43 PM Andy Shevchenko
<andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Intel Moorestown and Medfield are quite old Intel Atom based
> 32-bit platforms, which were in limited use in some Android phones,
> tablets and consumer electronics more than eight years ago.
>
> There are no bugs or problems ever reported outside from Intel
> for breaking any of that platforms for years. It seems no real
> users exists who run more or less fresh kernel on it. The commit
> 05f4434bc130 ("ASoC: Intel: remove mfld_machine") also in align
> with this theory.
>
> Due to above and to reduce a burden of supporting outdated drivers
> we remove the support of outdated platforms completely.
>
> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>

Does this mean drivers/sfi/ can get killed off along with
arch/x86/platforms/{intel-mid,sfi}, or are there still other
machines using that?

         Arnd