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

From: Mike Rapoport

Date: Fri Jul 03 2026 - 02:17:54 EST


Hi Adrian,

On Thu, Jul 02, 2026 at 12:25:47PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> 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.

It is by mm standards.

> > This isn't about sh, this is about reducing NUMA and SPARSEMEM_STATIC
> > footprint to ease the maintenance.
>
> Yes, and I will eventually pick up those patches to rectify this.

Why do you insist that these patches must go via sh-linux tree?

If you don't have time right now because of other commitments, Andrew is
here to help in exactly these cases: let patches move upstream when a
subsystem maintainer is too overloaded.

> Adrian

--
Sincerely yours,
Mike.