Re: [RFC PATCH] ARM: s3c: mark as deprecated and schedule removal after 2022

From: Krzysztof Kozlowski
Date: Tue Nov 02 2021 - 11:00:16 EST


On 02/11/2021 15:55, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>> The ones that would help the most in removing are probably omap1,
>> pxa, and the strongarm-based platforms: those have a lot of special
>> cases in the code base. At least a year ago the maintainers wanted
>> to keep those around, but maybe the 2022 LTS kernel is a better
>> time for planned EOL.

Yes, either we retire the platform with LTS kernel or we should wait few
releases. Otherwise if we remove the platform on LTS+1, the LTS
effectively won't get any updates specific for that platform.

Best regards,
Krzysztof