Re: [PATCH v3 00/10] sh: remove NUMA and SPARSEMEM support

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz]

Hello Mike,

On Thu, 2026-07-02 at 13:20 +0300, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> > I feel like this is an attempt to force me to give up as a maintainer.
> 
> This isn't an attempt to force you to give up, this is an attempt to merge
> patches that have been out there for long time.

You posted these patches the first time in April. This isn't a long time.

There were patches that have been on the mailing list for years without
being merged.

Arnd has, for example, sent out patches to make to allow the kernel being
built with different alignment so that we can switch Debian's m68k port
to 32-bit without breaking anything. I have been waiting for these for a
long time now and these also haven't been merged. It just happens sometimes.

> They are related to mm because we are talking about mm features. And it is
> long standing practice that Andrew takes patches that fall between the
> cracks.

It's not falling through the cracks. I have always picked up almost every
patch that people sent. It just sometimes takes me a little longer because
I'm not a professional maintainer, I also have a dayjob to attend and I also
sometimes have a private life to deal with.

> v1 went out in the middle of April, there were no comments at all from you
> almost for a month and I sent v2 on May 10th.
> 
> We are in July now, so this is definitely falling between the cracks.

No, it's not.

> > Otherwise, I can't really understand why you are building up so much
> > pressure for a niche and hobbyist architecture
> 
> By pressure you mean an email in a few weeks?!

By pressure I mean insisting on getting it merged and now trying to work
around me completely ignoring me despite me being the maintainer.

Yes, that's pressure.

> This isn't about sh, this is about reducing NUMA and SPARSEMEM_STATIC
> footprint to ease the maintenance.
> 
> A niche and hobbyist architecture does not need NUMA and SPARSEMEM.
> And for sh particularly they should have not be enabled at the first place.

Yes, and I will eventually pick up those patches to rectify this.

Adrian

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